Word: garcias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Richard Loeb in 1924 to murder 14-year-old Bobby Franks in a Dostoyevskian crime without passion, was sentenced to life imprisonment plus 99 years, served 33 years before earning parole in 1958, and is now a graduate student of sociology at the University of Puerto Rico; and Trudi Garcia de Quevedo, 56, Baltimore-born widow who runs a flower shop in San Juan; in Castaner, Puerto Rico, in a civil ceremony kept secret for 48 hours but approved by the Illinois Parole and Pardon Board...
...most popular politician in the Philippines is small, smiling Diosdado Macapagal, 50. Back in 1957, while the Nacionalistas' Carlos Garcia was getting himself elected President, Macapagal ran for the vice-presidency on the opposition Liberal Party ticket. He not only won, but also polled 160,000 more votes than Garcia himself. Last week a boisterous Liberal Party convention met in the mammoth Santa Ana cabaret outside Manila, and named Macapagal to run against Garcia in next November's presidential election...
...campaign points by improvising Tagalog poetry right on the stump. Barred these three years from the government's councils by the jealous Nacionalistas, Vice President Macapagal has had little to do but recite an occasional poem in the boondocks, cultivate his excellent relations with the Americans, denounce the Garcia administration for venality and torpor, and impatiently await the Liberal hour. Now he proclaims himself the spokesman of "a new generation" in the style of John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon. "Our people want change," he cried in his acceptance speech last week. "We shall open...
Macapagal has more than personal popularity and a reputation for honesty working in his favor. Last month anti-Garcia followers of Manuel Manahan, protégé of the late President Ramon Magsaysay, formally voted to back Macapagal. Other anti-Garcia Nacionalistas are threatening a party split if Garcia is renominated at next summer's convention. Leaving nothing to chance, Macapagal starts stumping the villages for his "new era" this week, nine months before elections...
...Assistant on Community Development) and financed by the U.S. International Cooperation Administration and the Philippine government, the four-year-old village-improvement program shines out in startling contrast to the grubby corruption that has come to dominate Philippine public life once again under the regime of indulgent President Carlos Garcia...