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...copper-cheeked sentry fired one shot into the night air. Then the guard stood aside, and a delegation of army officers strode into Quito's gloomy presidential palace. Inside, brusque Colonel Carlos Mancheno, Minister of Defense, told President José Mariá Velasco Ibarra that the army had finally turned against...
...never will." Fellow diplomats got to know him as a genial, hard-drinking six-footer who preferred, in the Spanish phrase, "to talk with his pants off" (i.e., frankly). But he worked well with U.S. diplomats at San Francisco and Chapultepec. In 1946 he resigned in disapproval of President Velasco Ibarra's erratic domestic policies. Last week, Ecuadorians heard that he might not take his Senate seat, but declare himself at once as a candidate for President...
...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...
There was another reason for Aléman's poor marks in Beteta's course-a girl, Beatriz Velasco, a pupil in a nearby domestic science school. Aléman used to rush through his studies, meet Beatriz and carry her books home. In time Miguel's friends visited the Velascos and, in the ceremonial Mexican fashion, argued that he was a fine boy, with a good reputation and good prospects. After due investigation, he became her novio oficial, with the right to come to dinner occasionally, to sit in the sala afterwards with Beatriz (and parents...
Born. To Mexico's energetic President Miguel Alemán, 44, and Beatriz Velasco de Alemán, 36; their third child (first in 13 years), a son; by Caesarean section in a Mexico City hospital. Name: Jorge Francisco. The relieved father rushed off to Cuernavaca, shot some better-than-usual (84) golf...