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...Enriquez. 47, dedicated 13 more miles of blacktop road through virgin farmland, rushed ancient Quito's $10 million face lifting (a jet airport, a new congressional palace), timed for the eleventh meeting of the Pan American Union next year. "Our people are working,'' says Ponce. "Our soil is flowering...
...boom is a ten-year record of political stability, starting with Galo Plaza Lasso, 53, onetime University of California fullback, who won the presidency in 1948. The secret ingredient is democracy, both of thought and action. Coupled with the brains to take advantage of Ecuador's rich soil, it brought the boom. As the dread Panama disease, a killing blight, ravaged older banana plantations through Central America, Galo Plaza spent every dollar his government could spare to open up the virgin coastal plain, where rich topsoil lay three feet thick. In ten years Ecuador built 1,600 miles...
...Hugh Q. Golder, British consulting engineer, has been appointed Gordon McKay Visiting Lecture on Engineering Geology at the University this Spring, it was learned yesterday. Golder will also lecture on topics dealing with soil mechanics...
Though the president of the deposed council protested, "This is a veritable coup d'etat" and there were rumors that the councilmen might meet in secret on French soil, Monegasques were neither rushing to the barricades nor fleeing to the border-a ten-minute walk from almost anywhere in Monaco. The 58-man army did not spring to arms, and Prince Rainier soothed his subjects by promising women the vote in national elections, a project dear to the heart of his U.S.-born wife...
...Camus read the book at 20 ("A soul-shaking experience"). Like Dostoevsky, Camus broods about the ailment of freedom without God, about political mass murder in the name of life and the future. Although he has been unable to accept Dostoevsky's remedy (return to God and the soil), he says: "The real 19th century prophet was Dostoevsky, not Karl Marx...