Word: planters
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...reloading, a romance that blossoms in warmest Technicolor during interludes of song & dance. The book's love story has been revamped and overblown: its Spanish heroine (now French, presumably to accommodate the studio's contract with France's Micheline Prelle) is married to a wealthy Filipino planter but conveniently widowed in plenty of time to get ardent comfort from Hero Power...
...After 416 performances as the love-struck French planter in South Pacific, Basso Ezio Pinza...
...Hero Ross Pary isn't quality in his home town of Natchez, Miss., but he returns there in 1850 with an Oxford education, a face "as clean-cut as a medallion," eyes "somber and brooding" and "plaid trousers, clinging to his well-turned legs." Morgan Brittany, a rich planter's wife, sees him and feels "warm all over-warm and good." Ross makes other women feel good too, and much of Floodtide seems designed to set female readers dreaming of Ross and of how much better they could handle him than the women...
...elective office. Uncomfortable in civilian clothes, he campaigned from the patio of his cream-colored house in San Salvador, let others take the stump. Shrewd Politico Osorio figured there would not be much to argue about anyway, since coffee prices had soared high enough to please every planter, and the junta's friendliness toward unions had sewed up the workers' vote...
...capital imposed by Junta Boss José Figueres. But as long as coffee continued to bring record prices, well-to-do Costa Ricans would not grumble too much. Congress and country seemed to agree that things were going just about right again. Said a satisfied planter in San José: "Costa Rica has been vaccinated. The revolution did it. We had to have it. Costa Rica is protected against power-grabbers for the next 50 years. We have regained the democracy we lost...