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President Mario Echandi, 44, of Costa Rica, is far ahead of the rest, mostly because of a head start. Coffee-based Costa Rica was settled by an industrious Spanish middle class of artisans, farmers and shopkeepers, forced to do their own work after warfare and disease wiped out the Indians who provided indolent grandees with slave labor throughout the rest of Central America. Now it is the isthmus' most prosperous, democratic, law-abiding and literate country. It has the only siz able middle class. Proudly it shuns militarism. Echandi. who recently sold off most of the country...
Married. Anna Maria Moneta Caglio, 30, socialite dubbed the "black swan" by the Italian press while she was performing as a controversial, contradictory witness in the Wilma Montesi homicide case, which shook Italian governmental circles from 1954 to 1957; and Mario Ricci, 34, builder, student, playboy; in Florence...
...where the buyer of a $2,000 U.S. car must post an import-discouraging $20,000 bond for three months, some 60% of the country's 54,429 cars are pre-World War II vintage. "They are strong like a tank and high like a horse," says Farmer Mario Herrera, who gets around the fields in a 1929 Dodge bought by his father. A 1928 Dodge taxi plies Santiago's red-light district in the wee hours, bearing witness to its driver's boast that even "drunks can't destroy...
Died. Betty Hicks Lanza, 37, widow of Tenor Mario Lanza, who died of a heart attack at 38 last October; of unknown cause (autopsy pending); in Beverly Hills...
...front, Bing assured the audience that the performance would go on after intermission. Baritone Mario Sereni was called as a substitute, but when the audience filed back at the warning buzzer half an hour later, a spotlight hit the curtain, and Bing stepped out again. "This," he began slowly, "is one of the saddest nights . . . I ask you all to rise in memory of one of our greatest performers, who died as I am sure he would have wanted to die-in the middle of one of his greatest performances. I am sure you will agree that it would...