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...high republic of Ecuador last week was the stage for an increasingly familiar scene. In a handful of cities, mobs dragged the U.S. flag through the streets, stoned U.S.-Ecuadorian "friendship centers," set afire a U.S. consul's car. In Quito, the American embassy was stoned, and 20,000 demonstrators, chanting "Cuba, Rusia y E-cua-dor," marched to a rabble-rousing pep rally led by President José Maria Velasco Ibarra and his pro-Communist Interior Minister Manuel...
...teacher from Earl Warren High (on leave to the Quito Binational Center in Ecuador), I am "guilty as charged" by several of my former students. We did give too few compositions in English classes and fewer yet essay exams. What will help? Get the history teachers out of the English department, the coaches out of the social sciences. Then treat the students as maturing young ladies and gentlemen, even when they don't seem to deserve it, and demand that they work up to a high school student's standard of excellence...
Centre Ecuatoriano Norteamericano Quito, Ecuador...
...Ecuador, street riots killed five and injured 33 when ex-President José Maria Velasco Ibarra arrived in Quito to stir up his supporters and start his campaign there for the presidential election June...
...itinerary are Peru and Venezuela, where Communist-led mobs heckled and attacked Vice President Nixon on his tour (TIME, May 19, 1958 et seq.); the White House diplomatically pointed out that a visit to Peru would also entail a stop-off in neighboring Ecuador, where the capital of Quito is too high (9.350 ft. above sea level) for a man with the President's heart history...