Word: quito
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...striking exception. It has an annual trade surplus, a currency more solid than the dollar, an economy growing by an average of 9% each year. Last week Conservative President Camilo Ponce Enriquez. 47, dedicated 13 more miles of blacktop road through virgin farmland, rushed ancient Quito's $10 million face lifting (a jet airport, a new congressional palace), timed for the eleventh meeting of the Pan American Union next year. "Our people are working,'' says Ponce. "Our soil is flowering...
...know, Vice President Nixon's trip through South America [TIME, May 26] was not all sweetness and light. However, the political climate was a little more agreeable in Ecuador. Here in Quito he took time out to enter a humble barbershop for a haircut. The barber has made use of his moment of fame [see cut). He stands in the doorway under his new sign. Nixon's name is flanked by Ecuadorian and U.S. flags...
GARRETH E. JOINER Quito. Ecuador...
...Ecuador, which gave Nixon two friendly, peaceful days, last week followed up by selling a green two-sucre (11½?) postage stamp, hurriedly engraved in Austria's State Printing Works and flown to Quito. The commemorative stamp bore the Vice President's likeness and the flags of the U.S. and Ecuador...
...grown to a position of world power similar to ancient Rome or 19th century Britain. Historically, strength excites fear and dislike. "You cannot be a basic power and be loved," said Ecuador's U.S.-educated ex-President Galo Plaza, with whom Nixon talked at length in Quito...