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...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...
...Thousand Faces. As it turned out, Actor Evans had one face: immobile. He also played Ava Gardner's bullfighter in The Sun Also Rises. It was bad enough that Papa Hemingway did not want him in the film. Neither did Tyrone Power. Or Errol Flynn. Even Mel Ferrer turned thumbs down. "They resented the fact," says Evans with acuity, "that a pants manufacturer was playing Pedro Romero...
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...million total to schooling, v. only 4% to the police and defense. Border problems have been few-thus there is little need for an army. Finally, there is the character of the man who last week emerged as Costa Rica's once and future President: Jose Figueres Ferrer...
...ANGELES, CALIF. Ahmanson Theater, the Music Center. José Ferrer plays the dual Don Quixote-Cervantes role in Man of La Mancha, a romantic operetta that resembles Don Quixote as it might have been written by Sancho Panza. But the settings and costumes are handsome...