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...noteworthy revolutionary plot. At Aguas Hediondas (literally: Stinking Waters), a sulphurous spa just outside Ecuador's southernmost city of Loja, army officers arrested Bolivar Galvez, a member of Quito's City Council and the president of the Quito Student Federation. In Loja itself, they picked up Lawyer Julio Moreno, director of Ecuador's opposition Liberal Party. Farther north in Cuenca, the country's third city, several army officers were taken into custody. All were charged with conspiracy to overthrow the government...
...situation changed abruptly. In the turbulent presidential election, Governor Getulio Vargas of Rio Grande do Sul was defeated by Julio Prestes, a protégé of the incumbent President, bumbling, liberal Washington Luiz. Flanked by fellow gaúcho Oswaldo Aranha and the swashbuckling General Pedro Aurelio de Góes Monteiro, Vargas marched triumphantly on Rio. The army-including Lieut. Colonel Eurico Caspar Dutra-recognized the popular strength of Vargas' movement and backed...
...Julio Visiman of Winthrop House and Guatenmala City, Guatenmala; Varsity Swimming, Student Council International Affairs Committee. Juan Maegil of Lowell House and Guatemalan City, Guatemala; Lowell House Committee, WHRV. Varsity Swimming, Student Council Committee on 1943 elections...
Almost from the start Hackett and his companion, Argentine Lieut. Jorge Julio Mottet, circled traps which had claimed the lives of at least 20 explorers since the peak was first climbed (by a Swiss guide named Mattias Zurbriggen) in 1897. After a tramp through desert-like heat at the base, the climbers crawled through a rock-chocked ravine to reach the slopes. Even in the midsummer month of February, clouds can lay a treacherous coat of verglas (glaze ice) on the slopes in less than an hour. Ice or no ice, there is always the danger of an attack...
...Julio Vielman of Winthrop House and Guatemala City, Guatemala; Varsity Swimming; International Affairs Committee; Harvard Student Council...