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...Filipino fight fans took exception to Featherweight Champion Sandy Sadler's rough-and-ready tactics in a nontitle fight with Manila favorite Flash Elorde. While Sandy was firing at Flash with head and elbow, the crowd was taking pot shots at the ring with stones and pop bottles. The referee penalized the champ so often for dirty fighting that Elorde had no trouble winning a unanimous decision...
...from the U.S.: President Eisenhower (in the Columbine late this week), Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, such European specialists as the State Department's Livingston Merchant and Douglas MacArthur II (nephew of the general), such "unofficial delegates" as Presidential Advisers Harold Stassen and Nelson Rockefeller, backstopped by Filipino mess-boys from the White House...
...Come one, come all," the big sign read. "Free medical clinic. Open day and night." Inside the clinic, a former warehouse in a newly liberated village of South Viet Nam, a group of Filipino doctors were performing a Caesarean section on a Vietnamese peasant woman. Their operating table was covered with a G.I. blanket and a strip of white cotton cloth torn from a CARE package; their patient was secured by wires nailed to the side of the table and lifted above her body by wedges of C-ration cans. Their light consisted of one electric bulb and half...
This was one of about 100,000 "treatments" given by Filipino doctors since they first came to help the Vietnamese last fall. In a country where the French colonials only got around to training 150 Vietnamese doctors, the Filipinos are making headway with insufficient equipment against such diseases as smallpox, malaria and beriberi. Fifty-eight Filipino volunteers-doctors, dentists, nurses and social workers-are doing what they can. "It is an inspiring thing." said Secretary of State John Foster Dulles in his address to the U.S. last week, "to see the Philippine people, who only lately achieved their own independence...
Drugs & Dedication. The idea first came to Oscar J. Arellano, 38, a Manila architect who witnessed the chaos in Saigon last summer, when hundreds of thousands of refugees fled down from the Communist north. Arellano thought Filipino doctors and nurses might like to help out, so he put it up to the Manila headquarters of the Philippine Junior Chamber of Commerce. "Publicity stunt," argued some Manila skeptics, but last October the first seven Filipino doctors and three Filipino nurses set out for South Viet Nam. Their average age was 25. The Filipinos first set up straw-hut clinics in eight...