Word: ferdinand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bathroom Murder. The ruling Liberal Party, headed by incumbent President Diosdado Macapagal, is running scared. The Nacionalistas are crowing that public-opinion polls show their candidate, Senate President Ferdinand Marcos, neck and neck with Macapagal. Both candidates have published glowing biographies. The President's, entitled Macapagal-The Incorruptible, runs over 200 pages. His rival's, called For Every Tear a Victory, is not only fatter and more fulsome, but has been made into a film that runs for three weepy hours. A Manila critic described it as a trilogy: "The first part is about Marcos, the second part...
Married. Robert Ferdinand Wagner, 55, New York City's third-term mayor; and Barbara Joan Cavanagh, 36, United Shoe Machinery Corp. heiress and longtime friend of the mayor's late wife Susan; he for the second time; by Francis Cardinal Spellman, in Manhattan. Following a ten-day honeymoon on Marco Island, Fla., the Wagners will live in a duplex suite at Manhattan's Hotel Carlyle while apartment hunting, relegating the mayor's residence, Gracie Mansion, to official use only, since they would have to move out when his term ends in December and, as Mrs. Wagner...
...some hoped he would be when he was elected three years ago amid fiery promises of cleaning up corruption. Faced with a tough election in November, he has carefully skirted the Laurel-Langley issue thus far, fearing that any stand would give ammunition to his opponent, Nationalist Party Leader Ferdinand Marcos, 47. To date, at least, each candidate has been jockeying to appear more pro-American than the other, but in the wake of last week's demo, both agreed that there could be further trouble...
...Madison Square Garden. That was enough practice as far as Coach Nat Volpe was concerned. He ordered his team back to the locker room to await the start of the game. "I didn't want them to see him before they had to," he explained. Who was him? Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor...
...matchless assemblage of European royalty has gathered in London for the funeral of King Edward VII. Striding among the plumes, epaulets and gold braid are Edward's nephew, Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany, King Albert of Belgium and Austria's ill-fated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, three players already swept up in the genesis of a tragedy to be known as World...