Word: ferdinand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week's national polling in the Philippines was held to fill eight of the 24 seats in the Senate, the governorships of 65 provinces and 1,427 town and city halls. The man who campaigned hardest-and had the most to win or lose-was a noncandidate, President Ferdinand Marcos, 50. Marcos chose to make the election a referendum on his two-year record of land reform, public works and school construction, also saw it as an opportunity to win control of his often rebellious Senate. Dressed in sport shirt and slacks, he showed up at as many...
...gunman severely wounded Jose B. Laurel Jr., son of the wartime puppet President and now Speaker of the Philippine House of Representatives, pumping two .45-cal. slugs into him before being chased away by Laurel's own bodyguard. The threat of violence has become so serious that President Ferdinand Marcos has sent detachments of the federal Constabulary into Manila and Batangas to strengthen understaffed local police forces, may send the troopers into other cities as well...
...silver miniature of New Delhi's minaret, Kutb Minar. From Russia's President Nikolai Podgorny came a 31-ft. porcelain vase, from Tunisian President Habib Bourguiba a solid gold olive tree and from Kuwait's Emir Sabah as Salem as Sabah two black Arabian stallions. President Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines sent a packet of seeds of a new strain of rice that, if it finds the right soil, can increase yields tenfold. The gifts and the illustrious names of their senders were well suited to the occasion. Iran last week celebrated the biggest public event...
...archtypical sex comedy title, which states the genre's basic premise, is Love is a Four Letter Word. The archtypical sex comedy lead is a hardened playboy, who turns out, in the third act, really to be no more of a stud than Ferdinand the Bull...
...orders in the name of moral responsibility. He had little in common with history's successful assassins. He was no envious leftist loser and loner like Lee Harvey Oswald, no anarchist fanatic like Czolgosz (the man who killed President McKinley), no tribal desperado like Princip (who shot Archduke Ferdinand and brought on World War I). He was rather an honorable officer and gentleman, a colonel on the general staff of the German army. Why, then, did he decide to organize and lead a conspiracy against the life of the chief of state to whom, as an officer...