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...Manila, Philippine President Carlos Garcia described the launching as "the best proof of the free world's claim that in the field of technology as well as elsewhere it can and has maintained its leadership." West Germany's Welt am Sonntag observed that "space no longer belongs to the Soviet Union alone. America has caught up with the Soviet Sputnik lead." It added, with pardonable local pride, that the achievement was "a personal triumph for Wernher von Braun and his German colleagues...
Almost everybody in Baja California shares the boom's excitement. Said prosperous Mexicali Air-conditioning Executive Manuel Garcia Prieto: "My wife and I just took a long-delayed vacation in New York. We saw My Fair Lady and Long Day's Journey into Night and Tosca. We'd planned to stay two weeks, but at the end of the first week I suddenly felt strange. I told my wife: You'll think I'm crazy, but I want to go back to Mexicali. It's hot in the summer and dusty in the winter...
...Philippines. Magsaysay is missed, but last month's elections, returning President Garcia to office while installing the opposition Liberals' Diosdado Macapagal as his Vice President, argue stability and democratic progress. The Communist Huks are almost extinct. Though the economy could be strong and prosperous, the Philippines are now in the throes of a crisis. Dollar reserves are down 30% since January, and President Garcia has called on Filipinos to "retrench," asked the U.S. for a $100 million loan. Fortnight ago he sharply restricted imports and dollar credits, announced a new austerity program designed to stop the drain...
Coming Man. But neither machine-made Garcia or airbrushed Manahan carried off the hearts of Filipino voters. By a turn unprecedented in Filipino history, that was achieved by fiery Diosdado Macapagal, 47, who not only won election as Vice President on the opposition Liberal ticket but racked up more votes than President Garcia himself. In doing so, he defeated the man the U.S. most wanted to see defeated-Garcia's running mate, Jose Laurel Jr., a pouchy-eyed lover of nightclubs and strong drink who remarked to one Nacionalista audience: "To hell with the Americans." Laurel's campaign...
...Cabinet post-customarily Foreign Affairs. Having served as Second Secretary of his country's Washington embassy, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and head of the Philippines' U.N. delegation, Macapagal expects to be named Foreign Minister notwithstanding his Liberal label. In the past he has suspected Garcia of "passive leanings toward neutralism," but declared that Garcia's campaign speeches had allayed his fears, thinks the two of them will have no serious difficulties on foreign policy. "I'm actively hostile toward neutrality," he says...