Word: costas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...acre in 1951 to $173,040 an acre. It now takes $185 per square foot to get front age on Munich's Marienplatz, and hill top land outside Bonn that went for 10 per square foot five years ago now brings $4.65. On Spain's Costa del Sol, which has become almost honky-tonk as a result of a vast influx of tourists and land speculators, even rural land now sells for as much as $60,000 an acre-a price that the same lot in Florida's Coral Gables could not command...
...Alkmim will have little to do except preside over the Senate. And President Castello Branco is not the sort to let the politicians talk on forever-not with Brazil's people in uniform squarely behind him. As tough old War Minister Artur da Costa e Silva said, "The time has now come for the army to return to its barracks. But our mission is not over. We will continue our vigilance. President Castello Branco can always count on his soldiers. At his first cry, they will be on their feet...
Over the pleasant city of Cartago in Costa Rica towers 11,260-ft. Irazú, the only mountain in the world that has its own cabinet minister and a private retinue of physicians. Irazú has rated such attentions since March 13, 1963, when it started spouting enormous clouds of hot ash and became the country's top menace and tourist attraction (TIME, Jan. 17). Sightseers can park near the lip of the crater and actually stare down into the billowing pit. Usually the prevailing wind blows the ash away from the spectators, but last week Irazú took...
...less surprised by this than Irazú's chief physician, Volcanologist Haroun Tazieff, who was hired by .the Costa Rican government to study Irazú and try to predict its tantrums. Fearing exactly the kind of explosion that occurred last week, he urged that tourists be barred from the crater. Now the authorities have closed the tempting road to the summit...
...This is a civilized meeting," reminded the general. "Let's keep it that way." "I hereby resign as governor," stormed Lacerda. "Tell that to the state assem bly," suggested the general. Lacerda stalked from the meeting, but a few days later issued a statement: "General Costa e Silva is a highly qualified man, just the kind that Brazil needs during such a difficult moment." Lacerda then announced that he was off to Europe or the U.S. for a two-month vacation...