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Burying the Bomba. As soon as his victory seemed assured last week, the President-elect called a press conference to tick off his goals. A steadfast friend of the U.S., Marcos said that he foresaw no changes in U.S.-Philippine relations. Backing the U.S. stand in Viet Nam, he pledged that if needed, he would send combat troops in addition to the 100-man Philippine medical unit already there. And he called for a strengthening of economic and cultural relations among the SEATO nations...
Suddenly, everything that could be pulled loose in the stadium-cushions, bottles, shoes, even bricks broken out of a wall-rained down on the field. A huge Negro, Matías ("Bomba") Rojas, with a police record for previous attacks on referees, came scrambling over the 9-ft. barbed-wire-topped fence separating the stands from the playing field. And the cry went up: "Ahí va Bomba [There goes the Bomb]!" The cops caught him just before he could reach the referee. "I hate to see Peruvians lose," he muttered as the police hustled him off the field...
...country, under the control of still another brother, Irving, 57. Sons of a New York tailor, the Mirisches all worked in the movie business from their teens on, starting as office boys and ushers, rising to be bookers. theater managers, producers (Brother Walter put out a dozen of the Bomba. the Jungle Boy films). When they decided to go independent, they "shook a little" with apprehension, Walter remembers. But they made $5,000,000 in their first year-which goes to show that in the new Hollywood, anyone can be a movie mogul with a little luck...
...animals and building a small, neat chapel. Little Sisters of Jesus are supposed to earn their own living: Sister Dominique got a job as charwoman to a rich family in town and Sister Marie Aline began to give French lessons and do babysitting. The people of La Bomba accepted them as their own. Women dropped in to offer help and ask advice; children picked up French words to impress them; during the black winter nights a couple of young men, apparently loafing around the sisters' hut, kept an eye peeled for obstreperous drunks. One widow with six children spoke...
Last week a third Little Sister joined the others at La Bomba: 24-year-old Marie Amélie Arizmendi, a French Basque. The warm weather had come at last, and the Order of the Little Sisters of Jesus seemed securely established in Spain. Only one small disappointment flawed Sister Marie Amélie's arrival. Don Angel refused for the second time to dedicate their little chapel...