Word: rican
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...John Biesanz, 31, who went to green Costa Rica on an exchange professorship from Winona State Teachers College in Minnesota. For 16 months he and his wife, Mavis, gathered facts and polled opinion, crisscross and endways. When Dr. Biesanz went into the Army, Mrs. Biesanz finished his report. Costa Rican Life (Columbia University Press; $3), published this month, is a lighter-reading, 272-page Middletown of Central America's cleanest, happiest country. Some findings...
...Costa Rican girls rank culture, personality, good health and a liking for home life (in that order) among the traits they want in their husbands. Faithfulness they rank, fifth: good looks, 24th. Said one: "I don't think there is a faithful husband in Costa Rica...
...Although the U.S. is not the most popular nation in Costa Rica (ranking below Mexico, Argentina, Spain, France, El Salvador), Costa Rican girls fancy Americans as husbands: half of those questioned (56) would like to marry Americans. One reason: "Americans are more considerate, faithful and helpful, and less jealous." Costa Rican men never dry dishes...
...nursed their wounds. They admired the ideals of their leader, young Doctor Arturo Romero, but regretted his lack of military experience. Dictator Aguirre's threats of "dangerous consequences" to Guatemala for harboring Salvadoran rebels frightened that country's Revolutionary Junta into talking of a Mexican-Guatemalan-Costa Rican alliance against the dictators. The rest of Central America continued to strain and heave...
This modification of the Costa Rican bill of fare has revived a small industry that was nearly killed off by the war. Now Costa Rican markets are selling some 20,000 pounds of turtle meat a week. At first the people of the highlands in the interior refused to touch the stuff. There was a rumor that turtle meat caused leprosy. But that rumor yielded to another: that turtle meat is an aphrodisiac...