Word: ecuador
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...know, Vice President Nixon's trip through South America [TIME, May 26] was not all sweetness and light. However, the political climate was a little more agreeable in Ecuador. Here in Quito he took time out to enter a humble barbershop for a haircut. The barber has made use of his moment of fame [see cut). He stands in the doorway under his new sign. Nixon's name is flanked by Ecuadorian and U.S. flags...
...outposts scattered throughout Lebanon, Brown sent them out in pairs of white U.N. jeeps to "see and hear." Later he hopes to add four light planes and two helicopters (offered by the U.S.) for his spotters. When Lebanese officials complained that such small, unarmed patrols could not stop infiltrators, Ecuador's ex-President Galo Plaza Lasso, one of the U.N.'s three supervisory commissioners, explained: "Our way is the moral way. We hope to stop the infiltration by bringing it to international attention...
...orchestra suffered its share of mishaps, beginning when its trunks were rain-soaked in Panama (TIME, May 12). It hit Guayaquil, Ecuador at a time when the streets were noisome as a result of a six-week garbage strike. In La Paz some of the players got high-altitude sickness, and in Santiago they played in an open sports arena with 30 electric heaters strategically spotted about the stage. But in Lima, days after a crowd had tried to break up the Nixon tour, the orchestra got an ovation when it played The Star-Spangled Banner...
...Ecuador, which gave Nixon two friendly, peaceful days, last week followed up by selling a green two-sucre (11½?) postage stamp, hurriedly engraved in Austria's State Printing Works and flown to Quito. The commemorative stamp bore the Vice President's likeness and the flags of the U.S. and Ecuador...
...Loved." For some of the ill feeling that emerged there could be no remedy. The U.S. had grown to a position of world power similar to ancient Rome or 19th century Britain. Historically, strength excites fear and dislike. "You cannot be a basic power and be loved," said Ecuador's U.S.-educated ex-President Galo Plaza, with whom Nixon talked at length in Quito...