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After eleven months in office, Ecuador's dapper President Galo Plaza Lasso last week passed a political milestone: his regime survived its first noteworthy revolutionary plot. At Aguas Hediondas (literally: Stinking Waters), a sulphurous spa just outside Ecuador's southernmost city of Loja, army officers arrested Bolivar Galvez, a member of Quito's City Council and the president of the Quito Student Federation. In Loja itself, they picked up Lawyer Julio Moreno, director of Ecuador's opposition Liberal Party. Farther north in Cuenca, the country's third city, several army officers were taken into custody...
Behind the high mahogany bar in Lima's Hotel Bolivar, the bartender poured a slug of water-clear liquor into a silver shaker, added lime juice, sugar, beaten white of egg, and ice, shook hard, then poured the mixture into a small glass. When Angostura had been sprinkled on the top, another pisco sour was ready for -the pre-luncheon crowd filling up Lima's best-known meeting place...
More than a month had passed since a military junta seized the government in Venezuela, and the U.S. had not recognized the new regime in Caracas. President Truman, who had come to know and like ousted President Romulo Gallegos on their two-day trip across the U.S. to Bolivar, Mo. last July, was personally responsible for the decision...
Last week Washington learned how Harry Truman had made up his mind. Shortly after the Gallegos government was overthrown, a White House secretary called the Simon Bolivar Memorial Foundation, which had arranged last summer's celebration in Bolivar. "The President," said the secretary, "would like to see your film on the Bolivar ceremony." Harry Truman sat silent through the half-hour, full-color documentary. Both his own speech and that of Gallegos were exhortations in praise of democracy. The movie over, the President said: "A fine picture. It says what we want to stress. It should be shown...
Traffic swirled around the Plaza Bolivar; Christmas shopping was off only slightly. The Venezuelan idol, Luis Sánchez ("El Diamante Negro"), dispatched his quota of bulls in the Nuevo Circo bull ring, the horses made their customary circuits of the Hipódromo race track, and I've Always Loved You played to full houses at the Lido Theater...