Word: barrio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...From barrio to barrio, and on every city street corner, the name of Ramon Magsaysay rang across the Philippines last week. Election day was only four weeks off, and every presidential and congressional candidate was busily trying to identify himself with the late great President, who was killed in an airplane crash only seven months ago. "Keep faith with Magsaysay!" cried the Nacionalistas of President Carlos P. Garcia, the smooth, shrewd politician who succeeded to the presidency on Magsaysay's death. "Magsaysay was our guy; now Yulo is our Magsaysay," proclaimed the Liberals, ignoring the fact that Ramon Magsaysay...
...split was wide open. Recto lashed back: "I shall hound him from barrio to barrio...
Best Marks. Through the week TV's own writers, actors and producers earned their best marks in the documentary and semi-documentry line. In Background (NBC, Sundays, 5:30 E.S.T), Producer Ted Mills turned a sympathetic, revealing eye on Puerto Rico's dirt-poor barrio farmers, their homes and their lush hills, and their first efforts to develop better roads and schools through community cooperation. With notable restraint and suspense, CBS's Danger (Tues. 10 p.m. E.S.T.) re-enacted the story of Polish Skipper Jan Cwiklinski (played by George Voskovec), who escaped from his ship Batory...
...reached the barrio at 6:35 a.m. If I failed to return by 9 a.m., the troops would blow the place to smithereens. Taruc was waiting at the foot of Mt. Arayat, an extinct volcano. His lean figure was surrounded by the people of the barrio; like them, he wore a grey peasant shirt, brown pants and a wide-brimmed straw hat. The only question I asked was: "Do you accept the President's terms?" Taruc said: "I accept." He shook my hands warmly and said farewell to the barrio folk, many of them weeping. Minutes later we were...
...First reports had it that an army lieutenant stopped the advancing troops just as they were about to capture Taruc, without the aid of Aquino. Actually, it was the barrio lieutenant, a local peace officer, who intervened; the army had nothing to do with it, and clearly understood its arrangement with Reporter Aquino...