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Except for uniformed police and soldiers, some 3,000 shivering high-school and university students were the only figures moving on the streets of Quito one morning last week. The students were there to take the first scientifically organized census in Ecuador's history. The police and soldiers were there to keep all other Quiteños in their homes until the census was completed...
...city of Quito fared well. Provisional figures released at week's end showed a population of 211,174; the estimated population in 1941 was 142,440. The census for all Ecuador, to be taken in 1950, is also expected to show surprising gains...
Debonair Galo Plaza and his "Democratic Civic Movement" had won an unexpected victory in last week's congressional elections. Organized just three weeks ago, running only in Quito, Ecuador's newest party had racked up a two-thirds majority, elected two Senators and picked off four out of Quito's five Deputies' seats. The Conservatives, hitherto dominant in the capital, were routed. Jubilantly, the new coalition of liberals, leftists and anticlericals set their sights for next year's presidential contest...
...obvious that an old name still worked magic in Ecuador. The man who led the ticket last week was the ex-playboy son of General Leonidas Plaza, twice the country's President and strong man. He was also well known in North America. He had fought bulls in Ecuador, played football at the University of California, sold apples on Manhattan streets when his father cut off his allowance, and shipped as a junior purser with the Grace Line...
...Back in Ecuador in 1933, he settled down, married a local society belle-and found the family fortunes in low estate. He proceeded to make the vast Plaza ranch north of Quito a model for Ecuador, brought in the country's first combine, six tractors, and blooded Holstein-Friesian herds. In 1938 he became Defense Minister. Galo Plaza quelled one students' strike by ringing the university with troops, entering and dragging out the two ringleaders by the scruff of their necks, then persuading the rest to quit...