Word: mario
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conservative lawyer named Mario Echandi, 42, won the presidency of Costa Rica last week from the quarreling heirs of left-of-center President José ("Don Pepe") Figueres. A tall, balding, eloquent man, who has promised to bring private capital back into such state-dominated fields as banking, power production and housing, Echandi triumphed in an election notably free of bloodshed or ballot juggling. His National Union Party, backed by two former Presidents, polled 103,326 votes. Figueres' chosen successor, Francisco Orlich, a former Public Works Minister, drew 97,102 votes, and Jorge Rossi, a maverick from the Figuerista...
...political heir of the assassinated Carlos Castillo Armas, Cruz Salazar controlled Congress, which has the legal power to break an election stalemate by choosing between the two front runners. Unofficial election totals put Ydigoras well ahead with 41% of the vote, left Cruz Salazar and Mario Méndez Montenegro of the liberal Revolutionary Party in a tight race for second place...
...than makes up for his lack of height (under 5 ft. 5 in.). He made his successful Met debut as Alvaro in Forza del Destino, and his Edgardo in last week's Lucia di Lammermoor had the house cheering. His secure, robust voice approaches the stentorian singing of Mario Del Monaco, although darker and not so piercing...
...MARIO SERENI, a 29-year-old Italian born lyric baritone, has been properly praised for his fine, resonant voice and roasted for wooden acting. As Lord Hepry Ashton in Lucia di Lammermoor this season, he sang well, was no more notable for oaken attitudes than many other performers in an art form that pays little heed to Stanislavsky. While the Met, with Robert Merrill and Warren, has enough starring baritones, Sereni will be useful in such important feature roles as Marcello (Bohème) and Silvio (Pagliacci...
...Seven Hills of Rome (Le Cloud; M-G-M), let the music lovers say what they will, is a fine piece of entertainment for people who like to watch Mario Lanza pursue the uneven tenor of his weight. As the man gets fatter, the voice seems to get thinner. This time Tenor Lanza, by dint of strenuous fasting, has wasted himself away to a mere 200 Ibs., and his tone is as plump as a Percheron's rump. As a musician, though, Lanza owes perhaps too much to his early conditioning as a delivery man for a wholesale grocer...