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...notion of an Agriculture Minister who had misgivings about land reform naturally infuriated Castro, and Havana heard that the other chided ministers, particularly Agramonte, were also fainthearted about the drastic law. Castro's answer was to fire them all and replace them with more fervent...
...there in the Group of Owners of Rustic Estates held four big rallies that showed the most outspoken opponents of land reform to be gnarled-handed small holders. Felix Fernÿndez Pérez, the group's president, owner of 149 acres and once exiled as a fervent Castro supporter, told 1,000 cheering men: "Castro has fooled us." Said semiliterate Farmer Macho Villar, who also fought for Castro: "I will continue to defend my land as long as I have breath, because I obtained it with the sweat of my brow and it is the only thing...
...televised news conference, Lee promised that Singapore, which he hopes eventually to unite with the mainland's independent Federation of Malaya, will not go Communist "unless and until Malaya goes Communist." The British hope that the fervent anti-Communism of Malaya's ruling conservatives, and Lee's own comprehension of the island's economic, dependence on foreign trade and capital, will hold him on a moderate course. As he congratulated Prime Minister Lee last week, retiring British Governor Sir William Goode (who will stay on as High Commissioner until a native of Singapore can be named...
...recent U.S. Department of Agriculture study, "has not resulted in a satisfactory adjustment between population and land resources." Pressure has been growing against the latifundios ever since Mexican Revolutionary Emiliano Zapata raised his famous war cry of "land and liberty" in 1910. Many Latin American constitutions nowadays contain a fervent clause about the need for land reform. At a meeting of the U.N. Economic Commission for Latin America last week in Panama, the 21 hemisphere nations recommended agrarian reform "whenever appropriate...
...most fervent opponents of splits are old-line managements who feel that the high price of a stock is synonymous with quality. Splitting a blue chip selling at $100 so that it sells at $20 would wash out its blueness. Superior Oil of California takes a defiant pride in the fact that its stock sells at $1,850 a share...