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Died. Francisco Aguirre, 54, labor leader in pre-Castro Cuba, a onetime hotel workers organizer who as Labor Minister in the late '40s swept the nation's unions clean of Communists, in 1951 helped the A.F.L.-C.I.O. found the pro-Western ORIT (Organization Regional Inter Americana de Trabaja-dores), two years later spearheaded a novel agreement by which his union bankrolled the building of the Havana Hilton Hotel, was jailed by Castro in 1959; of unknown causes (Castro's radio merely said "suddenly"); in La Cabana prison, Havana...
...against his mossback parents (Molly Picon and Lee J. Cobb) to put a long-overdue end to the shocking innocence of his kid brother, Tony Bill. At 21, and out of college, Tony is just a nice Jewish kid who has never tasted a martini or smoked a cigarette orit would seem -kissed a girl. He comes to live with Frank and get made over in the Sinatra image: a wardrobe of silk suits, spread-collar shirts, pointy shoes, and a set of attitudes that includes a taste for doxies and fancy barbers. Papa Cobb takes it pretty hard...