Word: garcias
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...election day Typhoon Kit howled across the northern Philippines, flooding villages, blocking roads, making thousands homeless. That night, sallow little President Carlos Garcia. 61, sat in a friend's home outside Manila, listening to the election returns and playing game after game of chess with an aide. When the radio reported that both the Liberals' Jose Yulo and the Progressives' Manuel Manahan were running ahead of him in Manila, Garcia played so badly that the aide won. But as the counting went on, the President's chess got better. By the next afternoon the typhoon that...
Thus Charley Garcia, the poet-politician from Bohol, won the right to keep the office he had inherited last March after the tragic death of Ramon Magsaysay. Garcia's victory was not impressive. Polling only an estimated 41% of the vote v. 28% for the Liberals' Yulo, he was returned to office more by the power of the Nacionalista Party machine than by any popular conviction that he could fill his predecessor's unfillable shoes. Independent Manahan, who tried so hard to shrug into the lost leader's mantle that he retouched his campaign photos...
Many a vote was bought (Garcia and Yulo dispersed an estimated $13 million), but as Philippine elections go, the election was relatively honest and there had been little violence (only 20 dead...
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...tire of spending a paragraph or two on people who sit around shooting benzedrine tubes at each other with an air gun. Toward the end of the book he contents himself with describing one party by listing names: "'Dean?' I yelled across the party--which included Angel Luz Garcia, the poet; Walter Evans; Victor Villanueva, the Veneauelan poet; Jinny Jones, a former love of mine;...(etc.)... and innumerable others--'Come over here, man.'" The lack of concreteness keeps the book sexless, despite the incredible amount of sleeping around. Kerouac has a long way to go if he really wants...