Word: costa
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...shot by Sportswriter Charles Parmiter, who was exploring the rugged hunting and fishing possibilities in Costa Rica's jungle (see SPORT). At the time, he thought he was bagging a jaguar. Back in New York, a taxidermist told him it was an ocelot. Well, it could happen to any sportswriter...
General Artur da Costa e Silva, 61, the army's senior ranking officer and one of Brazil's ablest tacticians, began organizing and planning. The plan was twofold. First, troops at Juiz de Fora, in Minas Gerais state, would rise up in rebellion. Then would follow a pause until Goulart's loyal forces were fully committed to crushing the trouble in Minas Gerais. Then a main force would march on Rio, and other commands would join the revolt. Costa e Silva's emissaries began crisscrossing the country, discreetly lining up support. "In the final days before...
...privileged few with $3,500 Holland & Holland rifles and fat letters of credit, Africa is still the place for those snarling big cats and tawny skins to adorn a bare den wall. But nowadays, for U.S. sportsmen with low budgets and yens for high adventure, there's Costa Rica right next door...
Timid Tapirs. Only 4½ hours and $77 from Miami by plane, democratic, relatively peaceful (last revolution: 1938) Costa Rica is a zoologist's and hunters dream. No one ever heard of bag limits, game wardens don't exist, and critters are everywhere. Last month, just ten miles outside-the mountain-circled capital city of San Jose, a farmer' plugged a wild black cat that measured 6½ ft. from nose to tail...
...jaguar safari in Sarapiqui is no sport for weak knees or weak stomachs. Not for Costa Ricans are the portable refrigerators, battery-operated LP phonographs and folding beds of the Kenya set. In Sarapiqui it is man; tent, sleeping bag and insect repellent against the elements. The. jungle is so thick, even on the-trails, that it sometimes takes a machete-wieldiag hunter 20 minutes to go 100 yds., Standard safari fare is beans and rice, plus what, ever the hunter shoots for the pot-boar steaks,, perhaps, or delicate morsels of tepez-cuintle, a 25-lb. creature that claims...