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There are twice as many tennis players in the U.S. (10 million) as there are people in Ecuador, (5,000,000), and the list of participants on a Sunday at the courts in Manhattan's Central Park is longer than the membership rolls (500) at all of Ecuador's five tennis clubs combined. But the U.S. Davis Cup team, which in eight years has managed to lose to Mexico, Italy (twice), Spain and Brazil, was not about to let statistics stand in the way. In Guayaquil last week, a four-man U.S. squad headed by Arthur Ashe-ranked...
...after winning the first set of the doubles at love, lost, 6-0, 7-9, 3-6, 6-4, 6-8. Finally, Ashe added irony to injury by losing to Guzman, 6-0, 4-6, 2-6, 6-0, 3-6-double-faulting away the match point that gave Ecuador an unassailable 3-1 lead...
Rushing pell-mell onto the court to congratulate his players, Ecuador's non-playing Team Captain Danilo Carrera tried to hurdle the net, tripped, fell and gloriously snapped an ankle. The victory was so unexpected that Ecuadorian tennis officials had no funds set aside to send Olvera and Guzman to next month's interzone semifinals in Europe. They immediately began taking up a collection-and U.S. Captain George MacCall contributed $50. For the losers, there was one final humiliation. From London came word that for the first time in memory no American player would be seeded...
...tiny South American republic of Ecuador, Vicente Levi Castillo is the hero of the wealthy taxpayers. A political pal of Ecuadorian President Otto Arosemena, Levi Castillo, 35, is a former Deputy in the Constituent Assembly, which has just completed a new constitution for Ecuador. It was in the process of losing his status as Deputy that he was elevated to the position of hero. Today his popular title is "the Dynamite Man of Ecuador...
...sessions of the Assembly in the Congress building high on a hill overlooking the capital city of Quito. One recent evening the program became particularly diverting when shrewd parliamentary maneuvering by one of the Deputies forced a clerk to start broadcasting the names of all the delinquent taxpayers in Ecuador. The poor Indians and mestizos of the countryside, listening on their transistor radios, were delighted at the embarrassment of so many rich merchants. President Arosemena, who was also listening in, realized that the names of many of his supporters would be among those mentioned. He placed an urgent call...