Word: costa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...through Latin America, people tend to think that Puerto Ricans are vassals of the United States," said Costa Rican President Jose ("Don Pepe") Figueres, on a state visit last week to San Juan. "Well, that's simply not true. The freedom that you breathe here is the same freedom that you breathe in any Anglo-Saxon country. That's what Puerto Rico has to put across to Latin Americans who look upon anything North American through jaundiced eyes, who simply cannot forget the slogans about Yankee imperialism and dollar diplomacy, and so do not understand the transformation...
...speech to a joint session of the legislature, he suggested the eventual political and economic integration of all the Americas. As an immediate economic step, he pleaded for what amounted to U.S. crop supports for Latin American agricultural products (coffee, sugar, bananas). "Three years ago," he recalled, "Costa Rica was persuaded to cultivate more cocoa, then selling for $65. So we planted more cocoa, using our own modest purse. Now cocoa sells for $25, and whole provinces of Costa Rica are suffering." In a TV talk at week's end, he returned to his main theme. "Puerto Rico...
...under way, even when they did not win, the surprisingly powerful Russians piled up points in almost every event they entered. The U.S. was substantially nowhere. ¶Bobsledding, almost a private sport for hefty, hare-brained daredevils, held no appeal for the Russians. Italian Jet Pilot Lamberto Dalla Costa, who knew every bump on the dangerous chute, put his long hours of practice to good use, swooshed home in front of his teammate Eugenio Monti. The best the U.S. could salvage was a slow fifth by Connecticut's Bud Washbond...
...high in back as well as in front, men wear two-piece bathing suits on the beaches, and unmarried girls are never permitted out after dark without a chaperone. Spaniards have long viewed with horrid fascination and some alarm the thriving colony of fun-loving American expatriates at sunbaked Costa del Sol, southwest of Malaga...
Somoza is fond of all sorts of artillery, but especially so these days, since he recently announced (for the umpteenth time) that he is the target of an assassination plot engineered by his old neighbor and enemy, Costa Rica's peppery President José Figueres...