Word: jose
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fischer, its famed Pianist Claudio Arrau and two of his most promising students, Mario Miranda and Alfonso Montecino. As the month goes on, Chile's writers will meet their U.S. con temporaries for panel discussions of the Chilean novel, featuring Sometime Critic Arthur Schlesinger, and theater, featuring Director Jose Quintero. Washington will be invited to a folklore program of song and dance; and Washington's Howard University will put on an exhibition of Chilean art drawn from Santiago's Museum of Contemporary Art and Manhattan's Museum...
Villeda Bermudes said his father was spending the night in the Costa Rican port city of Puntarenas and would be in San Jose by this afternoon...
...maverick and always have been," says Jose Figueres of himself. "I am the product of a personal revolution against the Catholicism of my family...
Figueres' father, a Spanish physician, immigrated to Costa Rica at the turn of the century. The family decided early that young Jose would follow his father into the physical sciences. But reluctant to study medicine, the 18-year-old boy journeyed to Boston to get a taste of the United States. He attended courses at M.I.T., studying electricity and engineering, and worked on the side checking automatic scales for pocket money. Increasingly, however, the social sciences came to interest the young Costa Rican. "Herbert Spencer," he reminisces fondly, "taught me English and the Boston Public Library is my real alma...
...social sciences, Anthro. 1 provides basic training while Jose Figueres gives the latest word from the horse's mouth on contemporary Latin America (Soc. Sci. 120). T.C. Schelling will survey the increasingly important theory of games and decisions in Ec. 135, "Games and Strategy...