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These shirts are very expensive and are usually elaborately embroidered. The peasants would surely think that it was kaululan (madness) if Magsaysay were to do his campaigning in an aloha shirt...
Your Aug. 24 article on Filipino Presidential Candidate Ramon Magsaysay told of Magsaysay hurrying home and changing his grey business suit for slacks and an "aloha" shirt. Having been a resident of both the Philippines and Hawaii, I can assure you that the shirt he is wearing in the picture accompanying the article is not an aloha shirt. Magsaysay and his buddies are wearing "barong fcagalogs," which are considered to be the national dress shirt in the Philippines...
...last week, after giving a speech on economics (not his strongest subject) to the Manila Junior Chamber of Commerce, Magsaysay hurried home, changed his grey business suit for slacks and an aloha shirt, and set out in an air-conditioned Cadillac for the barrios...
...Honolulu on the Fourth of July, five men, dressed in bright aloha sports shirts, and a drably dressed woman, Mrs. Eileen Fujimoto, climbed into a paddy wagon as gaily as if it were a station wagon on the way to a picnic. Communist leaders in the islands, they were on their way to prison. A colleague, Jack W. Hall, Harry Bridges' labor lieutenant in Hawaii, was out on $15,000 bail. Last month a jury found the seven guilty of a Communist plot to advocate overthrow of the government (TIME, June 29). Last week Judge Jon Wiig sentenced...
...Hawaii last week, Jack Hall, regional director of Harry Bridges' International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union, five other aloha-shirted defendants and the wife of one of them were found guilty of Communist plotting to overthrow the Government. The verdict brought to 51 the number of U.S. Reds convicted under the Smith...