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Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos should have been pleased. In an election for 165 seats in the interim National Assembly-the first such vote since 1972, when Marcos imposed martial law and rule by decree-his New Society Movement had made what the President himself called "a clean sweep." In Manila, where the election had turned into an emotionally charged referendum on martial law itself, Marcos' stalwarts took all 21 seats over the energetic opposition Laban Party. Marcos' wife Imelda was the biggest vote getter, but even the last-place Marcos partisan ran 300,000 votes better than Laban...
Across town in Polo Valenzueba, 3,000 people assemble for another kind of political rally: a blistering attack on both Imelda and her husband, President Ferdinand E. Marcos. There are matrons in housedresses, grizzled workers, youths in T shirts and jeans, and a swarm of children enchanted by the carnival atmosphere. The speakers stand on a makeshift platform mounted on four oil drums as Opposition Candidate Charito Planas declares, in a high resounding operatic pitch, "President Marcos is taping this rally. Let's let him hear how loud our voices are. " The crowd responds with upraised fists and shouts...
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos lashed out against the Law School Wednesday night for offering a visiting scholarship to Benigno Aquino Jr., Philippine opposition leader and a current political prisoner in Manila...
...Volkswagen Beetle started out as the car that nobody wanted to build. Ferdinand Porsche, who designed it, dreamed from the early 1920s of a "people's car" that would provide the kind of cheap transportation that Henry Ford's flivvers gave the U.S. Even after Adolf Hitler came to power and ordered automakers to produce a small car, Porsche's plans for his slope-nosed oddity got nowhere. Not until 1938, when Hitler made tt a state project did the Volkswagen become a reality-just in time to be modified into a Jeep-like military vehicle...
...draftsmen in the history of the West. The show contains ten Rem brandt drawings, and to see them in the context of work by his more gifted students is to be reminded of the difficulties of attribution. They imitated just what, one would think, was inimitable in his style: Ferdinand Bol, for instance, got Rembrandt's quick hooking line down so pat that he reproduced it unconsciously. They could not, however, approach the beautiful, sure clarity with which Rem brandt set down, in a few streaks and slashes of bistre, a windmill facing the estuary from an old bulwark...