Word: ricas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Russia's sleek, smiling Ambassador to Mexico climbed into the Mexican Army plane. Behind him came his wife and three members of his staff. In his pocket he carried his new credentials to the Government of Costa Rica, one of several Latin American Republics from which he had won recognition of the Soviet Union. Heavily, in the grey dawn, the plane lifted itself off the ground to 400 feet, then dived back to earth. There was a flash of blue and red flames. Then, in the blazing plane, death came to 42-year-old Ambassador Oumansky, his wife...
Died. Ricardo Jimenez y Oreamuno, 85, thrice President of Costa Rica, year in & out one of his country's most popular men, son and grandson of past Costa Rican Presidents; of acute indigestion; in San José, Costa Rica...
...Almost everybody in Costa Rica gets up before 5:30 a.m.; the children start school by 7. Most popular sport: billiards...
...Costa Rica depends on coffee, calls the local coffee bean the "grain of gold." There is reason for this eulogy: the Costa Rican bean assays at 86% liquid coffee-making essence, as compared to the Brazilian bean's 29%. Costa Rica's politics revolve around coffee; the coastal banana has only secondary political influence...
...findings of Dr. Biesanz and his wife did not bear out the belief of ancient, exploring Spaniards that Costa Rica is heaven. But they could agree with other travelers, enchanted with Costa Rica's orchids, soft laughter, democratic tradition, lush countryside, that it is like no other place on earth...