Word: costa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gage, president of Grace Chemical Co. (who will speak on atomic energy and agriculture); J. Carlton Ward Jr., president of Vitro Corp. of America, and A. C. Monteith, a vice president of Westinghouse Electric Corp. (who will go into the subject of industrial applications of atomic energy). Professor Joaqqim Costa Ribeiro, scientific director of Brazil's National Research Council, will discuss the opportunities for commercial development of atomic energy in Latin America...
From Mexico the Nixons flew to Guatemala. Beyond lay El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and Haiti...
Requests of all kinds come into the International Commission. Greek students have written for American support of their efforts to free Cyprus from British control, saying that Cypriots were civilized people when the British were still "swinging from trees." Costa Ricans actually appealed to the office for military aid from U.S. students in repelling an invasion "supported by the tyrant of Nicaragua." Students in this country, too, ask for information about many subjects--a proposed tour by Soviet editors, or the best ways to integrate foreign students on U.S. campuses...
They fought in high spirits, but it was the Loyalists' two-man air force that really turned the tide. When the Mustangs reached Costa Rica early last week, not a single available Costa Rican pilot had ever checked out in what was World War II's hottest U.S. fighter. But two commercial pilots with the appropriate names of Victory and Guerra (War) had run up thousands of hours in tamer planes. U.S. instructors hastily briefed them on the Mustang. Less than 24 hours later they buzzed San José, back from their first mission...
...take satisfaction from an effective first military application of the 1947 Rio treaty, which provides that every American nation must aid any other American that might be attacked. But no permanent peace has been won. Figueres still despises Somoza and wishes that neighbor Nicaragua were an armyless democracy like Costa Rica. Somoza still hates Figueres and wishes that his good friend Calderón Guardia were running Costa Rica. The Calderonistas still think revolution a more promising route to power than taking their chances in elections. Perhaps by way of preparation for the next round of shooting, Tacho Somoza last...