Word: bohol
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the cool heights of Baguio to steamy Zamboanga last week, 7,000,000 Filipinos went to the polls to elect eight senators and close to 13,000 city and provincial officials. At his home in Bohol, chess-playing President Carlos Garcia alternated between rejoicing over the birth of his first grandchild and fretting over the electoral prospects. Though neither his own office nor his Nacionalista Party's control of the 24-man Philippine Senate was at stake, Garcia knew that the off-year vote would be a test of his chances for re-election...
Thus Charley Garcia, the poet-politician from Bohol, won the right to keep the office he had inherited last March after the tragic death of Ramon Magsaysay. Garcia's victory was not impressive. Polling only an estimated 41% of the vote v. 28% for the Liberals' Yulo, he was returned to office more by the power of the Nacionalista Party machine than by any popular conviction that he could fill his predecessor's unfillable shoes. Independent Manahan, who tried so hard to shrug into the lost leader's mantle that he retouched his campaign photos...