Word: costa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery, deputy commander of NATO, arrived in Lisbon for a five-day visit at the invitation of Portugal's Defense Minister Lieut. Colonel Fernando dos Santos Costa...
Born. To Leonard Bernstein, 34, conductor, pianist and composer of symphony (Jeremiah), ballet (Fancy Free; Facsimile) and musicomedy (On the Town), and Costa Rica-born TV Actress Felicia Montealegre Bernstein, 30: their first child, a daughter; in Manhattan. Name: Jamie Anne Maria. Weight...
JULIAN A. WESTON San Jose, Costa Rica...
That was an interesting and snappy resume of revolutionary Latin America. However, don't you think you simplified the situation in Costa Rica too much: "A rustic democracy fit to gladden Thomas Jefferson's heart." What was all the uproar in San José in 1948, of which Otilio Ulate was the principal? As I recall, there was quite a bit of bloodshed then in that "rustic democracy...
...Costa Rican liberals fought a successful civil war to prevent reactionary congressmen from nullifying President Ulate's election. In 1787 Thomas Jefferson wrote: "The tree of liberty must be refreshed irom time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure...