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...Miguel de Santiago, an artist of Quito, has been released from prison, where he went for slashing off his wife's ear. (For one thing, she had let dirt fall on a painting he had finished and left to dry.) As penance, the artist is going to paint a religious picture. He binds a pupil to the cross, but the expression the master wants is not quite right until he thrusts a lance through the model's body. Santiago's Christ of the Agony is offered in evidence at his trial for murder, and the judges decide...
Thoroughly alarmed, the conservatives struck back. Army and judiciary heads attacked the Assembly. So did a mob, presumably inspired by conservatives, which charged through the streets of Quito shouting: "Down with the Communists!" The crowd came near to killing Comrade Saad. He was saved when a leftist mob engaged the conservatives in a free-for-all in front of the Presidential palace. At the height of this political disagreement, President Velasco stepped out on a balcony, talked his volatile countrymen into breaking off their bout and going home...
...soft talk was heard in Quito. Ecuadoran resentment against the U.S. had simmered since the Rio Conference of 1942, when the U.S. seemed to favor big Peru in the settlement of its 112-year-old boundary dispute with little Ecuador. Last week the resentment boiled over. There were cries of "Yankee imperialism." The Assembly met in secret session, issued a blast in the press condemning the Peruvian boundary settlement. It inferentially warned its Washington representatives not to give away any more Ecuadoran territory. The nation had already lost altogether too much...
...story centers around 9-year-old Stinky and his pet dancing caterpillar, Curley. Jerry Flynn, a washed-up producer, sees a gold mine in Curley and sets out to exploit him as the phenomenon of the century. Stinky, quito naturally, will not part with his pot, and Flynn spends three reels trying to make the worm a national figure without breaking the boy's heart. Newspaper headlines scream the daily intimacies of Curley's life. School children wear Curley sweaters. And everyone stops worrying about the war for a minute to sit back dreamily and think about the charming fairy...
Dictator Arroyo del Rio resigned, sought refuge in the Colombian Embassy. A provisional junta promptly invited Velasco Ibarra to take over. The exile promptly accepted, rode into Quito in a Lend-Lease jeep. With vivas and flowers, 50,000 Quitenos welcomed their new President. On a balcony overlooking Independence Square, Velasco Ibarra proclaimed...