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Fortunately for the Philippines, a hero arrived in the form of Ramon Magsaysay, a tall (5 ft. 11 in.), tough blacksmith's son from Zambales province, who took over as Defense Secretary in 1950. A principal backer in the Cabinet reshuffle: Freshman Congressman Ferdinand Marcos. Magsaysay tackled the Huks with double-barreled dynamism: his green-clad, rubber-booted troops rooted them out of the Luzon jungles and killed them without quarter; defectors were offered land in islands not infested by Huks. By 1954 Magsaysay had quelled the Huks, and won himself the presidency. Then in 1957, Magsaysay died...
...campaigned for Nixon for President. And by 1962 Reagan had leaped a pole apart from his original Democratic allegiance: he campaigned for California Congressman John Rousselot, who ran-and lost-as an avowed member of the John Birch Society. The same year, Reagan was state campaign chairman for Birch Backer Loyd Wright in his Republican primary contest against moderate G.O.P. Senator Thomas Kuchel. In 1964 Reagan, as co-chairman of California Citizens for Goldwater, went on TV with a sensational fund-raising speech in which he criticized the TVA, called the graduated income tax an example of "immorality," and accused...
...regards as his "early white-eyed liberal daze." Reagan became furious at Murphy, labeled him "an archreactionary." But Murphy persisted and, alter Reagan recognized what was happening, the pair patched up their differences. Now Murphy, haying led the way from show biz to public office, is an eager backer of Reagan's cause...
...provision that finally did pass scared the living daylights out of many Congressmen. With the elections not far off, everyone could recall how California's voters rejected the Rumford fair-housing act by a 2 to 1 margin in 1964, defeating Democratic Senatorial Candidate Pierre Salinger, a Rumford backer, in the process. With Congressmen worried about their constituents' reactions, even the gutted provision could muster only a 179 to 179 tie in a crucial test vote, which then was broken in favor of the open-housing measure by the chairman...
Happily for literature, not all the new U.S. novelists are attempting to renovate the novel. Many make admirable use of the established forms. Appearance of a Man (Random House) by George Backer, 63, an ex-publisher of the New York Post who inherited a real estate fortune and has served as a political adviser to Averell Harriman, elucidates the psychology of power in an intelligent tale about a character admittedly modeled on the late James Forrestal. All the Little Heroes (Bobbs-Merrill) by Herbert Wilner, 40, describes with tender humor and felicity how in the last ten days...