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Further south, the husky infant is poking about the Pentagon, the Treasury building, and other, sites of high-level policymaking, as the new cabinet of industrialists prepares to match its chromium lances with assorted governmental dragons. And who else could be the author of the nation-wide myth which prescribes such a cabinet as the sole cure for the country's woes? Efficiency, perhaps, and a greater measure of honesty are plausible predictions, but only the new year's child could produce the visions of miraculous relief currently fashionable...
...behind the scenes there has been high-level tampering with the army, in which Magsaysay has not been consulted, and Quirino's so-called "inner cabinet," which does not include the Defense Secretary, has reportedly been talking about imposing martial law and jailing the political opposition on charges of dealing with the Communists. There are many here who fear that neither the ideal of democratic elections nor the life of Ramon Magsaysay can be considered safe under such circumstances. There may be more anomalies, and serious ones, in the offing for the Philippines...
...commercials on Life Is Worth Living. Present plans, according to a Du Mont spokesman: 'The bishop will open with his usual good evening. Then he will possibly say, 'And now a message from our sponsor,' and well cut away from him to do a one-minute, high-level, institutional commercial. There will be no commercial in the middle of the show and just a little direct sell at the end. When the last commercial is over, the bishop will come back for his goodnight...
...Stuart Symington's high-level campaign in Missouri...
Replying to comments that the campaign is not being carried on as high level as predicted. Key said, "the practical necessities of communication between political leader and voter result in considerable use of the vernacular, will somewhat to the distress of those who predicted a high-level campaign. Yet a campaign that gets to the people the issues at stake may quite well be a high level campaign, although the bluntness of the language of political debate may jar the sensibilities of the sensitive...