Word: jointly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Along with a bottomless campaign chest, Garcia & Co. had the advantage of divided opposition: unable to agree on a joint ticket, Vice President Diosdado Macapagal, Garcia-baiting boss of the Liberal Party, and Progressive Manuel Manahan, hailed by his followers as spiritual heir to the late great President Ramon Magsaysay, abandoned their threatened coalition against Garcia. The Nacionalistas did poorly in the cities. In Manila, brash, gun-toting Arsenio Lacson, one of Garcia's archenemies, won a third term as mayor by a 2-to-1 majority; in Cebu City, Sergio Osmena Jr., son of the Philippines' wartime...
...financial straits, is two months behind in the rent for its Washington headquarters, forced to beg for day-to-day handouts to meet the office payroll. Last week Chairman Butler struck back at his tormenters with a characteristic ultimatum. State organizations that do not pay up the joint $1,370,000 they owe in overdue quotas for 1957-59, he promised, will be paid off by inferior seating and housing arrangements at the Los Angeles convention next July...
...that Russia must agree to study U.S. data on the difficulties of long-range detection of underground nuclear tests was a clear attempt "to throw the talks into a hopeless impasse." Then, with that off his chest, Tsarapkin blandly announced that Russia was now ready to "propose" that a joint working party of Soviet, British and U.S. scientists be directed to study the U.S. underground data...
...church's aim as "to cherish and spread the universal truths taught by Jesus and the other great teachers of humanity in every age and tradition, and prophetically expressed in the Judaeo-Christian tradition as love to God and love to man." To the delegates meeting in joint session this sounded too specifically Christian, and they voted it down. The amended version read: "To cherish and spread the universal truths taught by the great prophets and teachers of humanity in every age and tradition, immemorially summarized in their essence as love to God and love...
FIRST TELEPHONE CABLES between continental U.S. and Puerto Rico are being laid under 1,250 miles of ocean, in joint project by American Telephone & Telegraph Co. and International Telephone & Telegraph Co., at cost of $17 million. Deepest cable in the world (five miles) will be ready for use in February 1960, replace current radio circuits and allow direct dialing for most calls...