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Still under construction this week is the piece that caps the whole show: Alexander Calder's permanent contribution...
After being asked to make a mobile, the sculptor sent detailed sketches with a note saying, "I am sending you a stabile." Calder's "stabile" consists of an arch 59 ft. high and 49 ft. wide, weighing 30 tons and looming over the town's northern entrance. It rates the title of largest piece of modern metal sculpture in the world...
...that time, Otilio Ulate, a conservative newspaper publisher, was a clear winner in the presidential elections. In second place was Rafael Angel Calderón Guardia. an ex-President (1940-44) who still controlled the lame-duck Congress and got the election overturned as "fraudulent." Not until Ulate's campaign manager, a fiery, reform-minded planter named José ("Pepe") Figueres, rose in revolt and won a bloody, five-week civil war was Ulate able to take office. Figueres was elected President in his own right in 1953, went on to become the nation's most prominent political...
...over again. Unable to run himself (by law, two full terms must elapse before a President can succeed himself). Figueres and his National Liberation Party put up Francisco J. Orlich, 54, a well-to-do farmer and former boss of Figueres' public-works program. Main opposition: Old Enemy Calderón Guardia, now 61, and his Republican Party, which Figueres claimed was getting both money and arms from Communist Cuba. "We are armed, too," said Figueres, promising a fight if Calderón Guardia tried any election-day funny business. Citing Calderón Guardia's Communist connections...
When the votes were counted, there was nothing to fight about. Winner by a majority big enough to convince everyone: Figueres' man, Orlich, with more than 50% of the total vote, and 30 of the 57 seats in the new Congress. Calderón Guardia's party won only 19 seats; 8 others went to a third party that will probably line up with the winners. It was a smashing defeat for Calderón Guardia, and a powerful boost for ambitious Pepe's chances of being re-elected President himself in four years...