Word: ferrer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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MONDAY: Hollywood Television Theater. Jean Renoir's 1957 drama "Carola"; set during the German occupation, explores the divided loyalties of a French actress. First major production of play stars Leslie Car on and Mel Ferrer. CH. 2, 8 p.m. Color...
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Never one to back away from a fight, Costa Rica's cocky little (5 ft. 3 in.) President José Figueres Ferrer,65, last week took a very personal hand in foiling a boringly familiar contemporary crime-the hijacking of a jetliner...
...right role, is his fundamental resource. As a great actor, he achieves something new in every part?something of himself reborn, fathered by insight, nurtured by skill and imagination. Scott also offers something more. Always, just below the surface, there is an incessant drumbeat of anger. Says Jose Ferrer, who directed him in The Andersonville Trial on Broadway: "It's a concentrated fury, a sense of inner rage, a kind of controlled madness...
...Costa Rica's admirable if not entirely unblemished history of democratic government, no figure stands taller than diminutive (5 ft. 3 in.), scrappy José Figueres Ferrer, 64. At the head of a ragtag band of rebels in 1948, "Don Pepe" routed a Communist military coalition that had tried to seize power illegally. He banned the Communist party, abolished the army (Costa Rica has not had one since), instituted many social reforms and, after 18 months, restored power to the elected President. Figueres was elected to the presidency in his own right in 1953 and again last year. Educated...