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In the Costa Rican Embassy in Washington one night last week, the telephone rang. Sleek, young (24) First Secretary Alvaro Rossi answered it.

"Hello. My name is Boggs," said a man with a deep Southern accent. "I have a brother-in-law by the name of Figueres. Married my sister. I heard he was mixed up in some fighting down in Costa Rica recently. Can you tell me what happened to him? Is he still alive?"

"Your brother-in-law," replied Rossi, "is President of Costa Rica."*

* After leading the anti-government forces to victory in Costa Rica's recent civil war, Jose Figueres became head of the ruling Junta, in effect, the nation's chief executive. His pretty brunette wife is the former Henrietta Boggs of Birmingham, Ala.

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