Word: costa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Foreign Service Careerman Robert F. Woodward was appointed U.S. Ambassador to Costa Rica. Woodward's predecessor, Robert C. Hill, was named Ambassador to El Salvador, replacing Michael J. McDermott, recently resigned...
...banker-sportsman father: "It is a heck of an unpleasant picture, [depicting Ann] sort of against a rock with shells around . . . sort of slapped together in unpleasant, grey, grim colors . . . We wouldn't have had it if Dali paid us." At his summer home on Spain's Costa Brava, Dali simmered: "It pains me that they won't pay . . . This lady becomes more Daliesque than I. She is trying to obtain publicity at my expense...
...conferences, and out of the meetings came word that some officers thought it was time to depose Getulio Vargas. But to do that they needed the backing of the army, and to win that they had to convince the army's boss, War Minister General Euclyde Zenobio da Costa. The War Minister vetoed any change. The army, said he, "should guarantee constitutional liberties and Brazil's legally constituted government"-i.e., Vargas should be allowed to serve the remaining 17 months of his term...
...therefore understandably suspicious when, one day in 1947, a middle-aged man rushed up to her in the street and said (in Gina's English translation): "Do you want to do the cinema?" "Go to the devil," replied Gina. When the fellow protested that he was really Mario Costa, the famous regista, she made him show his identity card to prove it. Gina went to work as an extra at about $3.30 a day, soon rose to be a stand-in for a well-known actress, but was fired, she says, because the star was jealous of Gina...
This exposure to anti-capitalist propaganda did not stop Arbenz from piling up capitalist wealth for himself. As Arèvalo's Defense Minister, he could borrow and invest money from state banks, acquire businesses, land, and homes. Soon he was rich enough to invite Costa Rica's leading Communist to dinner at a luxurious villa and well enough briefed to discuss Marxist ideas with his guest. If Arbenz had been a widely traveled or broadly educated man, he might have been more skeptical, but in Guatemala there were actually rigid social stratifications and reactionary landlords, just...