Word: elpidio
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...frequently seen cutting elegant capers at the Riviera, Manila's fanciest nightclub. By day, Soriano is an industrial tycoon whose multimillion-dollar interests include the Magnolia Dairy, the San Miguel Brewery, and the Philippine Air Lines. He is also a powerful figure behind the government of President Elpidio Quirino...
...weeks after the Communist-led Hukbalahaps launched their latest campaign of terror across the Philippine countryside (TIME, April 10), President Elpidio Quirino announced that government forces had once more driven the rebels back into the hills. At the same time, the government placed new restrictions on the release of military news and Manila's newspapers noted a sharp drop in reports of Huk activities...
...President, pale, pudgy Elpidio Quirino, was doing his best. Ignoring a strained heart and doctors' orders to stay in bed, he transferred direction of anti-Huk operations from the Constabulary to the Army. But while the Army was getting ready for a general offensive, the guerrillas struck again in four provinces, raided Zambales, scheduled location for filming the movie which had brought Cinemactor Power to the Islands...
Last summer Philippines President Elpidio Quirino viewed with militant alarm the advances of Communism toward Southeast Asia. He called for a "firewall" to seal off the Red flame in China. In an address before Congress he asked the U.S. "not to tarry too long in the redefinition of fundamental attitudes toward Asia...
Newly elected President Elpidio Quirino of the Philippines flew to Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore for a kidney stone operation, there met retired Admiral William ("Bull") Halsey, recuperating from a cataract operation on his right...