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...both the violence and the cheating were small scale: the democratic process, triumphed. Some 4,200,000 Filipinos went to the polls to mark ballots with pencil and thumbprint. In the cleanest, calmest election in their six years of self-government, they elected vigorous, colorful Ramon Magsaysay, the Philippines' first authentic "man of the people." by a 2-to-1 landslide (2,890,401 to 1,292,395), gave Magsaysay's Nationalist-Democratic coalition a whopping majority in the House (67 to 31, with 4 still in doubt) and a solid one in the Senate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: The People's Choice | 11/23/1953 | See Source »

Massachusetts politics are not the cleanest in the country. So when a man whose pet project is stamping out gambling and corruption runs for office, he deserves special consideration. Through an unfortunate oversight, last Wednesday's editorial on the Cambridge City Council neglected to mention such a man, Andrew Trodden. Along with Marcus Morton, he is the brightest light among the non-incumbents in the field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Don't Forget Mr. Trodden | 11/2/1953 | See Source »

...wash like no detergent can-it's the soap in Duz that does it!" On Life Can Be Beautiful, life can really be beautiful if Tide is used ("Gets clothes cleaner than any soap"); on Backstage Wife, Cheer's "blue magic" guarantees "the whitest, brightest and the cleanest wash possible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SELLING: The Cleanup Man | 10/5/1953 | See Source »

...Marian, long, lean and suntanned, sits at the baby grand with an inward look in her eyes as her fingers ripple easily over the keyboard. Behind her are her solid sidemen, Bass Fiddler Bob Carter and Drummer Joe Morello, flicking out accompaniments. The result is some of the cleanest, most inventive "progressive" jazz to be heard anywhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Post-Dixieland Piano | 9/21/1953 | See Source »

BIGGEST worry of Detroit automakers is not whether they will sell their huge new car output, 47% higher than last year; it is the used-car glut. Prices are dropping, and finance companies are refusing loans on all but the cleanest, late-model trade-ins. Dealers who refuse to take their losses in order to move used cars now will probably be stuck with full lots and larger losses later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Jul. 6, 1953 | 7/6/1953 | See Source »

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