Word: cort
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From their Washington office they distribute a monthly newspaper, the Student Federalist, which reaches nearly 40,000 readers. They are currently concentrating on a sales campaign for LIFE Editor David Cort's newly published The Great Union, a brief, eloquent, brilliantly illustrated restatement of Streit's thesis. Convinced that their cause has no more than a half-century in which to save mankind from a third world war, they have set their sights for these goals by 1950: 1) 100,000 student members; 2) 30,000 teacher members; 3) 25,000 student leaders trained in summer camps annually...
Last week little Costa Rica (pop. 710,000), the model democracy of tropical America, had a wild mass meeting. From all over the country skillfully organized followers of Presidential candidate León Cortés Castro streamed into the neat little capital of San José (pop. 76,000). All night they paraded and chanted. A float showed Communists hanged in effigy. Next day 25,000, including many screaming women, jammed into the Plaza Gonzalez Víquez to cheer their candidate. The hospital of San Juan de Dios had installed 50 extra beds. Soon most were occupied...
...Candidates. Liberal President Rafael Angel Calderón Guardia, author of an employer-hated labor code, cannot constitutionally succeed himself. Candidate of his Republican Party is handsome Teodoro Picado. Candidate of the opposition Democrats is sour-faced León Cortés, now supported by most of Costa Rica's capitalists and landowners...
...drive out pulque the Government must conquer a superstition, smash a major industry. The superstition dates centuries before Cortés. This fall as in hundreds of years past, many a peon still trudged miles up into the mountains to participate in a bibulous ritual on the site where Ome Tochtli's idol once stood. As an industry, pulque employes a million and a half persons, covers a million acres of land...
Mexico has never been a great horse-racing country. Though their ancestors saw the first horses ever brought to America (by Cortés in 1519), Mexicans have always preferred bullfighting. In the '80s, when racing reached epidemic proportions in the U.S., Mexicans caught the fever for a while. Mexico City's Condesa race track, which flourished under President Porfirio Diaz, had the pomp of England's royal Ascot...