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Velasco Ibarra has one disadvantage: he is not in Ecuador. The President has forbidden him to re-enter the country, from which he was exiled in 1940. Undiscouraged, Velasco Ibarra recently set up headquarters at Pasto across the Colombian border. From that point he conducts a fly-by-night campaign by means of furtive messengers. His position with the voters is apparently strong; but fearing electoral fraud, he is said to be hoping for Army support, a near-necessity for a would-be President of Ecuador...
...coastal strip ten miles deep and running all the way from The Wash, on the east coast, around to Land's End, westernmost tip of England, was closed to civilian visitors; even the local residents were forbidden to have binoculars...
Half the game was played by Canadian rules, half by American. This meant that during the first half there were twelve men on a side ; interference was forbidden more than three yards ahead of the line of scrimmage; the backfield could be in motion before the ball was snapped...
...This year, for the second wartime season, major-league baseball has been forbidden by Czar Kenesaw Mountain Landis to spend money on southern training camps and fancy exhibition schedules. The result will be a training view of big leaguers for many parts of the U.S., as follows...
...funeral day of Korea's puppet Emperor, the people clad themselves in white mourning and the straw shoes of grief. Under the uneasy eyes of Jap gendarmes, 200,000 gathered in Seoul, the seaside capital. At two hours past noon, in thunderous mass unison, the people whipped forbidden banners into the air, shouted "Mansei!" ("Long Live Korea!"). In Pagoda Park a committee of 33 read a declaration: "We herewith proclaim the independence of Korea...