Word: hoy
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...quickly as the split was opened to public view, Cuba's Communists hurried to smooth it over. "There is no breach, but rather more unity for all," insisted Hoy, official organ of the Communist Party. Yet only a unity of necessity joins Castro's wild-eyed impulsive revolutionaries and the party's longtime regulars. And it is doubtful that any lasting meeting of minds can come between the mob-rousing and vain Fidel and the shadowy, heavy-set mulatto who heads Cuba's Communist Party and commands its maneuvers...
CARLOS RAFAEL RODRÍGUEZ, 48, editor of the Communist newspaper Hoy, professor of economics at Havana University and now: president of the vitally important Agrarian Reform Institute. Fond of good eating, good tailoring and fancy cuff links, Rodríguez joined the Communist Party at Havana University in the 1930s. A Marxist theoretician, he served as a government minister without portfolio in 1942-43 during Dictator Batista's long honeymoon with the Reds. At the recent Punta del Este foreign ministers' conference, the Cuban voice was that of puppet President Osvaldo Dorticós. but the words...
...famous Cuban family (his father was a hero of the 1898 War of Independence against Spain), Escalante drifted into the Communist Party in the early 1930s. His talent for words, ideas and persuasion was quickly noted; in 1938 he founded and became the first editor of a Communist daily, Hoy. As executive secretary of the party and a leading formulator of its policies when Fidel Castro entered Havana in 1959, Escalante praised Castro as "nationalist, progressive, democratic" but complained at the time that the bearded rebel's 26th of July movement was "not completely integrated or clearly defined...
...ministers' meeting is his puppet President, Osvaldo Dorticós, a traveler to Moscow who ran for local office on the Communist ticket as far back as 1948. At his elbow as the delegation's "adviser" is Carlos Rafael Rodriguez, editor of Cuba's Communist daily Hoy...
Died. William Ellsworth Hoy, 99, baseball's oldest former major leaguer who between 1888 and 1902 played for the Washington Senators, Cincinnati Reds and Chicago White Sox; of a stroke; in Cincinnati. Deafened when two years old by spinal meningitis, Hoy did not learn to speak till his wife taught him at 36, retained a lifelong preference for sign language, and in the blunt innocence of a bygone age was affectionately dubbed "Dummy" by his teammates...