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...violence did not frighten the voters away from the polls; 80% of the qualified electorate cast ballots. Nor did voters take seriously President Ferdinand Marcos' claims that Liberal-aided Communist insurgents were about to overthrow the government. In a stinging personal defeat for Marcos and a severe setback for his ruling Nacionalista Party, the voters gave the underdog Liberals six of the eight contested Senate seats-the only national offices at stake -as well as the Manila mayoralty. Marcos' party did considerably better in some 15,000 local and provincial races, but many of them were uncontested...
...decision makers to become familiar with the issues and the personalities that make current history. The first News Tour, to Western Europe and Russia, resulted in a long and memorable interview with Nikita Khrushchev. On three subsequent tours to Asia and Eastern Europe, participants met Marshal Tito, Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, Indonesian President Suharto, Pakistan's then-President Ayub Khan, Generalissimo and Mme. Chiang Kai-shek and South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu...
Rembrandt, and his gifted student Ferdinand Bol, evidence the skill of the Dutch in graphics and printmaking. With precision and clarity of lines, cross-hatching to illustrate the play of light among the characters, these two Netherlandish artists evoke the spirit and personality of Blind Tobit and of Woman in the Window with a Pear, finely etched with pear-shaped curves...
...Manila Times Photographer Ben Roxas. Virtually everyone on the stage was injured, including incumbent Senator Jovito Salonga, who is running for reelection; Liberal Party President Geraldo Roxas; and the Liberal Party's 1969 presidential candidate, Senator Sergio Osmeria Jr., who received critical head and chest wounds. President Ferdinand Marcos termed the bombing "a national tragedy." Who had caused the tragedy? Police believed that the hand grenades had been thrown by "leftist radicals" they had earlier noticed in the crowd...
Blanket and Slipper. Le Club began its career in 1969, after Founder Ferdinand Koos was forced to abandon his vacation because most French hotels were put off by the fact that he planned to bring along his three Great Danes. It now boasts 800 host families and 1,000 satisfied customers. One of them is William Bader, an American foundation official who left his Irish setter, Shenandoah, with the club for two weeks. "When the young driver called for my setter," he reported, "he asked to take along the dog's blanket and an old slipper. When I said...