Word: costas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lyndon Johnson, it is well known, likes dancing parties. But in Washington these sweltering days, even the two-step is hot work. Thus, after a state dinner for visiting Costa Rican President Francisco Orlich and his wife Marita, President Johnson took his guests out onto the low-lying rooftop adjoining the east wing, only a few hundred feet from the street, where they danced under Japanese lanterns that swayed in the cooling breeze...
...first round, Ralston lost to Tony Pickard, a 29-year-old Englishman who had virtually retired from competitive tennis; Ralston romped through the first two sets, then collapsed to lose in five. Froehling also fell in the first round-to Nicky Kalo-geropoulos, a 19-year-old, Costa Rican-born Greek who had just graduated from the juniors. Froehling's problem was double faults. By the semifinals, McKinley was the only American left in the tournament. He took care of that, dropping a four-set match to Australia's Fred Stolle-the same man he whipped...
...single post of state taxidermist-enough to stuff every man, woman and child in his state. Then there was the former president of Brazil's state savings banks, who became a millionaire by dipping into the till. His mistake was once inviting General Artur da Costa e Silva to visit his sumptuous apartment, showing off his wardrobe ("Fifty white linen suits alone," he beamed). Came the revolution, and Costa e Silva, now Brazil's hardheaded War Minister, personally entered the banker's name on the purge list...
...spot so unspoiled that there is still almost nothing there is Sardinia's Costa Smeralda. But a syndicate headed by the Aga Khan is busy trying to change all that. It has launched a $650 million development along 35 miles of mountainous coastline that embrace scores of beaches and several natural ports. Some 35 hotels are planned, with accompanying golf courses, hunting grounds, polo fields, theaters, nightclubs and casinos. Since the coast at present is nearly devoid of inhabitants, the promoters plan to provide authentic quaintness by building some fishing villages from the ground up, complete with imported fishermen...
...Brazil, where smugglers bring in an estimated 250,000 transistor radios each year, one Japanese model that retails legally for $46 costs $7.50 at your friendly smuggler's outlet. Guatemalans smuggle almost anything made in Mexico; Costa Rica's national lottery is pretty unexciting, so Costa Ricans slip in big wads of tickets from Panama, where the payoff is bigger. In Chile Camay soap rates high, since local brands are sudsless-and expensive. Scotch whisky is a durable favorite everywhere. (Enterprising Argentine distillers now produce under license a domestic brand labeled "Old Smuggler," but it cannot quite pass...