Word: jimenez
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...comeback attempt, Don Pepe delivered 805 speeches in eleven months and visited every town in the country. That performance was a wholly convincing reply to the young critics who questioned his vigor. Of his four opponents, his chief adversary was Mario Echandi Jimenez, another ex-President (1958-62), who accused Don Pepe and his National Liberation Party of Communist leanings. "I am not going to take anything from anybody who has struggled up the economic ladder," said the conservative Echandi. By contrast, Don Pepe directed his campaign to the problems of "the submerged third"-the urban unemployed and rural poor...
...begin to worry." The most nagging worry: if Russo is off for six months, he will lose Blue Cross coverage. Money pinch or not, Ray Russo has no plans to look for work because that would wipe out unemployment benefits and supplemental compensation. THE SPACE SPECIALIST. Jose Jimenez (no kin to the Bill Dana comedy character) is a former Navy lieutenant commander who spent the past seven years at North American Rockwell's plant in Downey, Calif., as an Apollo command-module training officer. At 44, he has enough plaques, awards, citations and pins to wall up a suburban...
...wife and seven children. Three weeks after being laid off, he put down all of his savings, plus about $ 13,000 borrowed from his father, and opened a franchised Tastee Freez stand. "I am working my butt off," he says about his 16-hour days and seven-day weeks. Jimenez went into business for himself because he did not want to leave the Downey area. "I had four or five offers, but they were all outside the state." He has a mortgage, but can just meet the payments, and his family helps out by working at the stand. While...