Word: costa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...outrageously courageous decision of Dairyman Hubert Mendenhall and 25 other Quakers to leave the U.S. and settle in peaceful Costa Rica [TIME, Oct. 9] should make Americans stop and think. Or at least think-if we can't stop...
Mendenhall and 25 other Quakers near Fairhope have put their farms up for sale. They plan to move to Costa Rica, which disbanded its army in 1949. In their new land, picked after a survey of Latin American farm areas, they plan to raise livestock and coffee. Said Mendenhall: "The sense of values in this country is becoming more materialistic all the time . . . In Costa Rica we can only hope to make a modest living, but it will not be so directly tied in with the military economy...
Every state in the Union is contributing to this year's new class. And the District of Columbia, the territories of Hawaii, Puerto Rice, Costa Rica, and 25 foreign countries will also be represented...
...Criminal Mind. In San Jose, Costa Rica, thieves broke into a chicken coop, carried off all the hens, left a note tied to the rooster's neck: "I was made a widower at 2 o'clock this morning...
...nine U.N. members not asked for armed aid: the U.S., already in Korea up to its ears; Nationalist China, whose offer to send troops was being stalled because the U.S. State Department still could not make up its mind to cooperate with Chiang Kaishek; Costa Rica whose constitution forbids it to have an army and the six of the 59 U.N. members (Yugoslavia and the five Soviet-bloc nations) who did not give some form of backing to the U.N. action in Korea...