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Over the past year the CRIMSON has waged an unflagging campaign against Jose Luis Sert, Dean of the Faculty of Design, and his buildings in Cambridge. For the most part, the paper's attacks have used vicious ridicule. Last August, for example, the Harvard Summer News (the CRIMSON's summer alias) printed a picture of the Married Students Housing Center with the caption, "University Moves to Thwart Early Marriages...
Villeda Bermudes said his father was spending the night in the Costa Rican port city of Puntarenas and would be in San Jose by this afternoon...
...maverick and always have been," says Jose Figueres of himself. "I am the product of a personal revolution against the Catholicism of my family...
Figueres' father, a Spanish physician, immigrated to Costa Rica at the turn of the century. The family decided early that young Jose would follow his father into the physical sciences. But reluctant to study medicine, the 18-year-old boy journeyed to Boston to get a taste of the United States. He attended courses at M.I.T., studying electricity and engineering, and worked on the side checking automatic scales for pocket money. Increasingly, however, the social sciences came to interest the young Costa Rican. "Herbert Spencer," he reminisces fondly, "taught me English and the Boston Public Library is my real alma...
...Jose Figueres is a compassionate figure. He knows the plight of Spanish America today. "We are a depressed people and depression is worse than war because in war at least there is glory." Latin America, he insists, can not escape revolution. "The days of the Latin conservative are numbered. The democrat or the communist--one can't be sure which--holds the keys to the future of our countries...