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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...
...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...
...only other victory for the Barnaby men was garnered by Cort Parker, number nine man, playing his first match in Varsity competition...
With Captain Qaelen Felt now in the Army, the Harvard lineup has been in a state of flux for the past week. Definitely in the nine that will go to make the team, however, are Tom Baker, George Clay, Wally McDonald, Decker Orr, Dudley Palmer, Cort Parker, Tom Sears, Dave Shepard, and John Zinsser. Little is now known about the Yale team, although Barnaby Indicated last night that they would be "very tough pickins...