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...tight little valley high in the Andes, the 400-year-old capital city of Quito (pop. 174,000) was astir with a new kind of bustle. Its Conservative mayor, tall, thin Jacinto Jijén y Caamano, 57, was making things hum. He had talked President Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra into borrowing $4,000,000 in Washington to build the city's first aqueduct since Inca times. Said Mayor Jijén (pronounced "he-hone"): "This summer, for the first time, Quito will have water...
Last week Conchita was back on the circuit, in Quito. Ecuadorians jammed their old, wooden bull ring. Some even sat on the roof. Although the first bull was sluggish (dulling Conchita's artistry), the judges awarded her both ears. She passed one to the crowd, threw the other away. Aficionados understood: she knew she had not earned a trophy...
...that "Shell's pulling out." It hit Ecuador last week with all the panicky force of a colliery's closing on a Pennsylvania hard-coal town. It remained rumor while officials of .the Shell Co. of Ecuador, Ltd. talked about reorganization rather than withdrawal. But in Quito Shell's lawyer, Henry Farquharson, after insisting that plans called for firing of less than 20% of 4,500 employees, added ominously: "You can't go on indefinitely." What he meant was that Shell could not go on pouring money into a plan which has not yet produced...
...Quito (pop. 160,000), wrinkled in a tight little Andean valley, gets its water from rivulets and springs in the mountains, has a fair supply only during the rainy season. But even when the clouds open, distribution pumps often break down. Hilltop houses generally have water only at night, if at all. On Quito streets Indian women carrying buckets in search of water are as familiar a sight as lottery-ticket vendors in Havana. Complained an indignant letter-writer in Quito's El Comercio: "In the morning the cook must take a streetcar to the hospital...
With the $8 million, Ecuador plans to provide Quito with new pumps and water mains to every part of the city. Some of the money will be spent on the steaming port of Guayaquil (pop. 170,000), which shares most of the water troubles that plague the capital. Guayaquil will get a system of artesian wells to supplement the present source of supply, the stinking, putrid Guayas River. Eventual goal for capital and port: plenty of water to drink, a bath a day for everyone...