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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...
...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...
...else. In Guatemala, opposition by coffee growers and businessmen has managed to kill Conservative President Manuel Ydigoras Fuentes' attempts to initiate a much-needed income tax. In El Salvador, where the contrast between the barefoot poor and the well-manored rich is extreme, the influential El Diario de Hoy editorialized: "The last thing we need is a social revolution; what we need is greater mechanization...
...convention came admiring fraternal delegates from 30 lands, among them top-ranking Red Theoretician Jacques Duclos of France. The Communist newspaper Hoy, which Carlos Rafael Rodríguez edits, chortled happily: "The monstrous version of the Communist with knife between his teeth has completely disappeared in Cuba...