Word: ecuador
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Both dedications, inspired by two 17th century French saints, require Vatican approval, and entail a preparatory period by faithful Catholics of daily Mass and special instructions in church doctrine. Dedicated by their governments to the Sacred Heart: Ecuador (the first, in 1873), Colombia, Mexico, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Brazil, Peru, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Malta and the Philippines. Dedicated to the Immaculate Heart: Colombia, Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, Ireland, Belgium and Spain...
...famous five who were killed by the Auca Indians in Ecuador on Jan. 8, 1956 was Nate Saint (TIME, Jan. 23, 1956), and some clues to the making of a missionary are to be found in his biography, published this week under the title Jungle Pilot (Harper; $3.75). The author is Russell T. Hitt, editor of the interdenominational Protestant magazine Eternity, but as Editor Hitt admits, the book was more than co-authored by Nate Saint himself, who kept a diary in which his personality comes through strong and clear...
Breaking into Prison. Life in Ecuador for Nate Saint, his trained-nurse wife Marjorie, and their three children was a story of emergencies and hardships that would pale the most jazzed-up TV script. Nate wrote of hairbreadth landings on narrow jungle airstrips that were "like parking a car at 70 miles an hour." Nate's "parish" covered a growing number of Protestant mission stations in eastern Ecuador. "It is our task," he wrote, "to lift these missionaries up to where five minutes in a plane equals 24 hours on foot . . . It's a matter of gaining precious...
Full-Term Presidents. Ecuador had nowhere to go but up. It did. In 1948 Manhattan-born Galo Plaza, onetime football player for U.C.L.A., won election at the head of an independent ticket. Plaza, now 53 and main speaker at the recent Puerto Rican conference of U.S. Governors, gave Ecuador its first census, developed the world's largest banana industry to relieve Ecuador's dependence on witches'-broom-diseased cacao, offered Ecuador "chemically pure" democracy, free of press censorship and police statism. He served out all his four years, the first president to do so in 28 years...
...Ecuador's current President, Ponce Enríquez, first Conservative in the office since 1895, provided the toughest test of the new stability. Squeezing through a split in the Liberals, Ponce won only 29% of the vote, topped his nearest Liberal opponent by only .5%, nevertheless was confirmed, and has held on with only a few uprisings, so mild as to be almost unnoticeable. After 150 years, Ecuador has learned how to live with freedom...