Word: orlich
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...Tallchief and the National Symphony Orchestra for entertainment. She has dispensed with white tie and tails in favor of the less imposing black tie. She mixes her guest lists with a style that would make Karnak's eyes pop. At a rooftop dance for Costa Rican President Francisco Orlich, for example, guests included Evangelist Billy Graham, Comedian Jimmy Durante, Composer Richard Rodgers, Chase Manhattan Bank President David Rockefeller and Author John Dos Passes-while Lady Bird's daughter Luci danced the frug to the music of Lester Lanin's orchestra...
Lyndon Johnson, it is well known, likes dancing parties. But in Washington these sweltering days, even the two-step is hot work. Thus, after a state dinner for visiting Costa Rican President Francisco Orlich and his wife Marita, President Johnson took his guests out onto the low-lying rooftop adjoining the east wing, only a few hundred feet from the street, where they danced under Japanese lanterns that swayed in the cooling breeze...
Last week, as a record 375,000 voters went to the polls, it seemed like 1948 all over again. Unable to run himself (by law, two full terms must elapse before a President can succeed himself). Figueres and his National Liberation Party put up Francisco J. Orlich, 54, a well-to-do farmer and former boss of Figueres' public-works program. Main opposition: Old Enemy Calderón Guardia, now 61, and his Republican Party, which Figueres claimed was getting both money and arms from Communist Cuba. "We are armed, too," said Figueres, promising a fight if Calder...
When the votes were counted, there was nothing to fight about. Winner by a majority big enough to convince everyone: Figueres' man, Orlich, with more than 50% of the total vote, and 30 of the 57 seats in the new Congress. Calderón Guardia's party won only 19 seats; 8 others went to a third party that will probably line up with the winners. It was a smashing defeat for Calderón Guardia, and a powerful boost for ambitious Pepe's chances of being re-elected President himself in four years...
...been an outspoken leader of the opposition in Congress. His fluent oratory and eccentric flair (he always dresses in a striking black suit, tie and hat, lunches at the Union Club but orders a favorite peasant dish of highly spiced rice and beans) gave him a needed advantage over Orlich, a dour, earnest candidate...