Word: garcias
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When TIME Correspondent Jim Bell interviewed Philippine President Carlos Garcia last May, two months after Ramon Magsaysay's funeral, Garcia made it perfectly clear that he intended to seek the presidency on his own this November. Last week Correspondent Bell, back in Manila, spent three hours with the President while Garcia chain-smoked Chesterfields and described the political maneuvering that brought him the Nacionalista Party nomination for President. For the lively story of how he did it, with delegates and decolletage, see FOREIGN NEWS, Here Comes Charley...
When mild little Carlos Garcia took over as President of the Philippines after the plane-crash death of the nation's beloved Ramon Magsaysay last March, Garcia announced, in a paraphrase of Harry Truman, that he felt as if he had been hit by a ton of bricks.* Like Truman, he was a faithful member of an old political machine, was picked as Vice President on straight party considerations, and seemed no man to fill his predecessor's larger shoes. Charley Garcia, 60, was expected to serve out the remaining nine months of Ramon Magsaysay's term...
WILLIAM I. GARCIA JR., M.D. Los Angeles
...Philippines, onetime U.S. Ambassador to Russia Charles ("Chip") Bohlen presented his credentials to President Carlos P. Garcia at Malacanan Palace, later chatted informally over cigarettes while the first rain after a long dry spell-an omen for the new ambassador's success-began to fall on Manila...
Cold Comfort. In El Paso, a jury awarded $450 in damages to a baby sitter after her former employer made out her paycheck to "Mary Garcia - lousy maid...