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...Captain Leonidas Plaza, who earned a captain's commission in a bayonet charge during the war with Peru, was in Garcia Moreno penitentiary under 16 years' sentence for participation in an abortive revolt protesting the Peru-Ecuador border settlement. The youngest son. Lieut. José Maria ("Pepe"), 32, banned from his homeland, risked his life in a Mexico City bull ring in a benefit appearance (gross gate: 16,000 pesos) for Ecuadorians made homeless in last spring's earthquake...
...Pepe's Kill. Handsome in his olive vestido de corte, his sideburns shadowed by his flat-crowned sombrero, José Maria proved himself a good novillero. His verónicas were trim and clean-cut. He bravely ventured a few faroles, swirling his cape overhead in the pass. Greatest applause and the bull's ear went to a comedian, who arduously dispatched a bull calf with toothpick horns to the accompaniment of a conga. The greatest burst of catcalls and jeers rose at the eviction of a teenage boy who leaped the arena fence and had beginner...
...Pepe's Chill. Pepe, like his two older brothers, learned bull fighting on the huge rancho granted his family 300 years ago by the King of Spain. He dispatched his first bull in Quito's Plaza Belmonte (named for the famed Spanish matador, Juan Belmonte) when he was 13. From his father and brothers he learned a deep love for Ecuador, the U.S. and liberty. As provocative as his verónicas are his attempts to get Ecuador to become the first South American nation to declare war on the Axis. As fierce as a toro...
...arrival of General José Mijares Palencia and Eduardo Neri in San Antonio touched off rumors that a revolutionary council was actually being organized. Big-hipped, soft-spoken Pepe Palencia beat the Almazán drums for the election this summer. Less in the spotlight, more powerful from the background was chunky, balding Neri, head of Almazán's PRUN (Revolutionary Party of National Unification). If a junta was being formed, he was the man to form...
Robert L. Heilbroner, New York; Lawrence B. Heller, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.; Edwin Hewitt, Chicago; Enno R. Hobbing, Reading, Pa.; Martin J. Lydon, Lowell; and Enrico A. Pepe, East Boston...