Word: costas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...clear day, people in Costa Rica's capital of San José used to enjoy the view of the dormant, 11,260-ft. volcano Irazú, 16 miles to the northeast. But dormant volcanoes, like "unloaded" guns, can be full of nasty surprises. Last March a violent explosion deep inside Irazú threw up a shower of rocks, some weighing as much as two tons. A dark cloud of gritty ash spread across the sky, and soon drifted down to cover the pretty little Central American city with a layer of what looked like dirty snow...
...Costa Rican government appealed for aid, and the U.S. rushed in an initial 4,000 tons of cattle feed, plus 500 respirators for street cleaners. Costa Rican businessmen raised an emergency fund and bought three U.S. road-sweeping machines. But last week Irazú continued its eruptions, and San José could not sweep away the ash fast enough...
Last week, after five years on the outskirts of her ambition, Soprano Mary Costa finally made it to the Met, and her debut was one of the rare victories of art over advertising. It was also among the season's most difficult. Without the comfort of a single stage rehearsal in one of opera's most treacherous roles, she sang La Traviata's Violetta only three weeks after Joan Sutherland's Met debut in the same role. With La Stupenda's triumph still fresh in mind, the critics expected only a nice try from...
This "colonial mentality" is not shared by the American Canal Zone authorities, However, added the former president of Costa Rica. That country borders Panama on the north...
...like a newspaper-some issues run to 166 pages. It runs news stories and banner headlines. These days, in fact, only the discerning reader can tell the difference between the real thing and most giveaways trying to look like a regular newspaper. Five years ago in California, the Contra Costa Times, a doddering twice-a-weekly with 5,550 paid subscribers, started distributing copies free. Since then, ad revenue has doubled, the pa per has turned profitable and now reaches 51,000 readers...