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...open up 5,000,000 acres of the country's richest land for colonization, thus doubling the total amount of national acreage under cultivation. Then Belaunde got the idea of extending the road beyond Peru, and persuaded Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia and Paraguay to join in. "We have lost the habit of thinking on a grand scale," he said, "of conceiving works that, like the Panama Canal, change the geography of a continent. Nature is our enemy, and nature can be overcome...
There are three candidates for the post: Galo Plaza Lasso of Ecuador, supported by the big three, Marcos Falcon Briceno of Venezuela, and Eduardo Ritter Aislan of Panama. Ritter is the man causing all the trouble. There have been four ballots since November 17, and Ritter is ahead with 10 votes to Plaza's six and Falcon's five. It is a virtual deadlock--Ritter is two short of a majority--and the OAS has given up for the moment to let tempers cool. It will try again in January...
...test, Plaza would be a far worse choice for us than the other two. We could probably control them far more easily." He pointed out that Plaza comes from the non-Communist Latin American nation which has given the United States the most trouble in the past year. Ecuador has demanded the withdrawal of our ambassador from Quito. We complied. And it was Ecuador's President Arismendi who delivered a stinging attack on U.S. economic imperialism in Latin America at the conference in Punta del Este last April. The speech was the only one which ruffled the placid self-congratulatory...
Blow Up. One leader in the new field is Manhattan's Mass Art, Inc., a quartet of young naturalized American designers from France, India, Ecuador and Cuba. Mass Art started out last year offering inflatable vinyl pillows for $1. After expanding into tote bags and bubble earrings, it is now making an $80 chair and a $20 table. The chair consists simply of four clear vinyl pillows nesting in a spare aluminum frame, and anybody who sits in one looks like a master of levitation...
...increase over 1966 as 973,578 business and pleasure visitors arrived from overseas. In August, 191,494 travelers arrived in the U.S., a 50.2% jump over the same month last year. Impressive percentage increases in tourists during the eight months were shown by Finland (94.2%), France (89.4%), Ecuador (67.3%) and Japan...