Word: costa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days," sighed Athens Tavernkeeper Costa Pandelidis, "elections were elections. There were free drinks. There were bands and songs and dancing. There was bloodshed. The walls were plastered with pictures of candidates. This year the government has forbidden posters and forbidden outdoor meetings. This is not an election; this is nothing but rice pudding...
Around the Caribbean, where some governments change violently and others never seem to change at all, little Costa Rica (pop. 800,875) has the firmest grip on democracy. Its citizens like their Presidents elected, their press free, their schools strong. They feel no need for an army but will rise in arms when they must. A citizen army, under Coffee Planter Jose Figueres, fought in 1948 to stop a scheming government from keeping an elected President, Otilio Ulate, out of office. Figueres won handily, and, as promised, turned the government back to Ulate. Since then, President Ulate...
Last week President Harry Truman sent Under Secretary of State Edward Miller to San Jose, the cool, green capital of Costa Rica. There, amidst the yellow silk tapestries of the one-story' Foreign Office, Miller pinned on a beaming, weeping Ulate the U.S. white-&-gold Legion of Merit in the highest grade for "exceptionally meritorious conduct" in office...
Back in Saskatchewan, Arthur Morton clung doggedly to hope. In his newspaper he read of an evangelist in Costa Mesa, Calif, who was said to be curing the sick by prayer. Ignoring the advice of doctors, he decided to make the 2,800-mile trip with his son, by then scarcely able to breathe, and wasted to a shadowy 20 pounds...
Answered Prayers. After a nightmare trip of six days & nights, the Mortons got to Costa Mesa. There the father and Evangelist William Branham prayed over the boy. "Then," says Arthur Morton, "our prayers were answered." Reading of the Mortons' journey in a Los Angeles newspaper, an elderly Pasadena woman persuaded Brain Specialist William T. Grant to examine the boy, guaranteed hospital and medical expenses. She too had had what doctors called a "hopeless" subdural hydroma, and had been cured of it by surgery...