Word: costa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more helpless Cubans are holed up at the various embassies in Havana. Since Castro refused to honor the Latin American tradition of safe-conduct out of the country, many have been in asylum for five months or more. The Venezuelan embassy holds 205 people; Brazil has 195. Costa Rica 95, Argentina 70. Colombia 50. Though European embassies do not officially grant asylum, several have taken in fleeing Cubans as "guests." The political "asylees" have escaped Castro's police, but many of them are little better off than those in his dungeons...
...when Chopin wintered there with piano and Mistress George Sand, Majorca was a Mediterranean Bali Ha'i far off the beaten tourist track. Since then, thanks to cut-rate package vacations and a climate even kindlier than Spain's Costa Brava, the island has become a kind of Costa Coney (436,000 visitors last year), where the local patois in peak season is more Cockney than Catalan...
...their compatriots swept in to join them, they leaped into Italy. On the Isle of Capri they met each other coming and going. They sneaked over to Portofino, but the word got out, and now it's finito. Then they established a beachhead in Spain-Majorca, the Costa Brava -but soon that old Henry James feeling set in again. They switched surreptitiously to Jamaica and the Virgin Islands, and got overrun before they could unpack...
...Fence. Castro's declaration of fealty to Moscow did more than a warehouse full of U.S. White Papers to arouse many Latin Americans to an awareness of danger. In Caracas, noted in the past for its anti-Yankee riots, 400 students demonstrated against Castro. In San José, Costa Rica, students at the city's eight high schools walked out to demand a break in diplomatic relations, and President Mario Echandi deplored the restricting "principle of nonintervention which seems every day more unsuitable to inter-American unity." Chile's President Alessandri blamed the Communist bloc...
...Moscow, Corbu built a ten-story glass-walled office building that survived two decaded of Stalinist criticism as anti-esthetic to become, now, much admired. Then Le Corbusier flew to Brazil (in the old Graf Zeppelin), to advise a team that included Oscar Niemeyer and Lucio Costa on the designing of Rio's 1936 Ministry of Education, a slab on pilotis with a new feature: a honeycomb of sun-shading breeze-admitting vanes at the windows, called brises-soleīl. That single example spread to give all the major cities of Latin America, notably Brasilia, their present look...