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...rightfielder of the Minnesota Twins is a hoax. He calls himself Tony, but his name is Pedro. He has claimed to be 27, but he is really 22. He swings a bat as though he were waving goodbye to his grandmother. And he is probably the only ballplayer in the major leagues who got turned down twice by the minors. But none of that is likely to keep Tony-or Pedro-Oliva from becoming Rookie of the Year and, just possibly, the only player in history to win the American League batting championship in his first big-league season...
...country Cuban plantation worker, Oliva was barely 19 when the Twins' man in Havana spotted him in 1960 and offered him a minor-league tryout. He jumped at the chance. Trouble was, he needed a passport, and Cuba being Cuba, that involved all sorts of red tape. So Pedro simply borrowed his brother Tony's-and has been using his brother's name ever since...
...company, recently sold 45% of it to Chrysler for $19 million. Onetime Bank Clerk Jose Maria Aristrain, 48, started a scrap-iron business as a sideline, was so successful that he opened foundries, now operates plants that turn out 60,000 tons of steel a year. At 43, Engineer Pedro Duran is the aggressive president of the country's principal ship and locomotive building firm...
...PEDRO MARTÍNEZ, by Oscar Lewis. With his tape recorder spinning, the author of The Children of Sanchez gets down the biography of another Mexican: a peasant farmer who engaged in one ill-fated political reform after another...
...threat in the Philippines, even though economic instability and corruption remain dangerous; the hard-core armed Huks probably number only a few hundred, and they may be able to draw on perhaps 10,000 supporters in remote Mindanao and Luzon. Successor to Lava as leader of the Huks is Pedro Taruc, cousin to Luis, who seems determined to continue desultory attacks on remote villages...