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...Elected President by the greatest popular vote ever received in his country, Jose Figueres plans to remodel Costa Rica into...
...farmers are poor because, for lack of roads, the produce must be hauled out inefficiently over mule paths. To remedy this situation, the society last March resolved to buy a roadbuilding tractor. "Even the poorest farmhands gave a bolivar (30^), and one rich man sent 10,000," said Pablo Jose Tamayo, president of the society. "But he who gave 10,000 is neither more nor less the owner than the man who gave only one." Last August, having raised 95,000 bolivars, the Friends ordered an International Harvester TD-24 with bulldozer...
...HIVE (257 pp.)-Camllo Jose Cela-Farrar, Straus & Young...
...Camilo Jose Cela is a 37-year-old Spanish novelist with a rare distinction: although he fought in Generalissimo Franco's army during the civil war, joined the Falange and to this day lives and works under the Fascist regime, his novel about Madrid is being cheered by emigre Spanish Republicans. So rare a distinction stems from a rare quality. In the face of dictatorship, Novelist Cela has the courage to write the truth as he sees it and the talent to transform his merciless vision of contemporary Madrid into a series of Goya-like vignettes...
Filipino Protestants gathered in downtown Manila's gothic United Church last week to celebrate a milestone event: the commissioning of missionaries to foreign lands. The Rev. Jorge R. Quismundo, 29, was off with his wife to teach in Celebes, the Rev. Jose D. Estoye, 29, and his wife were bound for Thailand. They were the first missionaries to be sent abroad by the new United Church of the Philippines...