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...same time, it was announced that James L. Galo '57 of Hollis Hall and Concord, Mass., will manage next year's team. Roger Langley '54 served as head manager this past season...
Before the eyes of diplomats, generals and other men of distinction gathered in Quito's ornate Sucre National Theater last week, Manhattan-born Galo Plaza Lasso took off his yellow, blue and red presidential sash. For the first time since 1924, a constitutionally elected President of Ecuador had served out his full four-year term and was passing the emblem of office to a constitutionally elected successor. The sash had fitted husky ex-Athlete (University of California) Plaza a lot better than it fitted bony Scholar (international law, political theory) Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra, Ecuador's new chief...
...Give me a balcony in each town ind I shall take possession of Ecuador," Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra once cried from exile. Last week, having harangued the country from balconies all over Ecuador, Velasco Ibarra was elected President to succeed U.S.-educated Galo Plaza Lasso...
...Ecuadorian voters showed the same distrust for the nation's two historic parties as they did four years ago when Galo Plaza swept into office as a coalition candidate. They put their faith in Velasco's spellbinding personal appeal; humble people flocked to him. Explained a market woman: "Taita [Papa] Velasco understands the poor because he is poor." Velasco owns little property, lives austerely. He describes his policy as "neo-liberalism," which he fancies as a kind of "third position" between the "extremes" of capitalism and Communism...
Ecuador. After four Presidents in eleven months, Galo Plaza Lasso, a U.S.-born democrat, was chosen President by orderly elections in 1948. Chances are 50-50 that he can survive until August, his term...