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Married. Maria Laura Arosemena, 29, daughter of Ecuador's Banker-President Carlos Julio Arosemena; to Galo Andrade, 31, New Orleans importer, ex-Ecuadorian Navy lieutenant; in Houston...
...people of Ecuador," said Senator-elect Galo Plaza Lasso, 41, "are tired of traditional parties. That's why they voted...
...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...
...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...
...Galo Plaza Lasso, Ecuador's Ambassador to Washington, worked closely with the U.S. delegation. But he delighted correspondents by reviving that conference perennial, the striped-pants story. After reporters had smoked out a State Department memorandum recommending pin-striped pants, Ambassador Plaza announced: "I've told everyone in the U.S. that I've never worn them, and I certainly don't intend to start now." The A.P. quoted a conference...