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...terms. Yet despite army coups and revolutions, they keep right on re-electing the man of their choice, however dubious his chances of staying the course in office. Last week Ecuadorians went to the polls for the first time since the army sacked President José María Velasco Ibarra in 1961. The winner and new President: José María Velasco Ibarra...
...first came into his viewfinder during the filming of A Lovely Summer Morning two years ago, and since then Spanish Cameraman Manuel Velasco, 23, has absolutely refused to let Actress Geraldine Chaplin, 22, out of his sight. It got so that even though she was dating other fellows, the gossips were insisting that soon there would be a Velasco on either side of the camera. Not so, said Charlie's daughter. "I have no intention of marrying until I'm 30 at least." That does seem a bit of a wait, but Manuel looked reasonably patient when...
MEXICO. The handsome pavilion is designed so that most of it can be viewed from couches and comfy basket chairs. From the ceiling sombreroed skeletons dangle drolly; paintings by Tamayo, Rivera, Velasco and Siqueiros are upstaged by a superb Orozco hung on the same wall a floor above the others. And outside the pavilion, the "Flying Eagles of Papantla" scale a 114-ft. pole four times a day and float back down to earth...
Corie's mama (Mildred Natwick) drops in earlier. So does Victor Velasco (Kurt Kaszner), an average Continental charmer. This sets a zany subplot in motion: Can a lonely New Jersey pill popper who sleeps on a board find enduring happiness with an ebullient Hungarian gourmet who sleeps on a rug? It takes an uproarious culinary trek to Staten Island and several draughts of ouzo, the Greek tequila, to resolve this dilemma. Meanwhile, Corie and Paul have a lallapalouzo of a spat. Corie's mother primes a happy last-act curtain with some classic advice on how to hold...
...Masculine Passions." Alas, the soldiers had a point. Installed as President 20 months ago (after a coup against erratic President José María Velasco Ibarra), Arosemena came from an aristocratic family of bankers and landowners. His father was Acting President from 1947 to 1948. He himself had been elected Vice President in 1960, was known as an intelligent, reform-minded individualist. But he was also well known as a powerful man with a bottle-and in office the binges seemed to have grown more frequent. For days at a time, he failed to show up at his office...