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...presidential election is eleven months away, Filipinos have already begun to fear election anomalies-fraud, intimidation, bloodshed, and perhaps even civil war. In fact, the stakes are so high and the conflict so bitter between the incumbent Liberals under President Elpidio Quirino and the Nacionalistas under Senator José Laurel that some observ-.ers talk darkly of the danger of a coup d'etat before election day. From TIME'S Far East Correspondent Robert Neville this week came a report on the situation...
...intense is the rivalry between Quirino and Laurel, the logical opponents, that Filipinos fear the country will suffer a repetition of the intimidation and general bloodshed which accompanied Quirino's victory in 1949. In that election, armed soldiers herded voters to the polls, and even the birds, bees and trees were "voted." Jose Laurel, openly predicting violence, came out recently with a dramatic proposal for forestalling it: For the good of the Philippines, he suggested, both he and Quirino should 1) renounce their ambitions to the Presidency, and 2) agree to support popular Defense Secretary Ramon Magsaysay...
...prizewinning coin design by 71-year-old Sculptress Mary Gillick. "Absurd to do that with the poor girl," sniffed one Londoner of Mrs. Gillick's work. "Made her look like a schoolgirl and she's really quite regal." Others objected to the sculptured royal nose and the laurel-wreathed, bun-backed hairdo. "Not a good likeness, as far as I can judge," humphed famed non-likeness-making Sculptor Epstein. "Look what they've done to our Queen," piped one shrill critic. "Made her neck too long." "I should say," said another sculptor whose own design had been...
...recent years, attempts to lure European and South American entries into big U.S. "specials" have proved a bust. The few whose owners took the $50-75-100,000 bait were either not good enough, or they ran far below their home form. Last week, at Maryland's Laurel Park, the job finally got done-in good, if not conclusive, style...
...third in the 1951 Kentucky Derby) and a favorite Maryland router named Pilaster. Although the distance and the turf course favored Zucchero (touted as "the greatest four-year-old in Europe") and Wilwyn (winner of ten straight), all three U.S. entries had good turf races to their credit, and Laurel's record crowd of 26,000 patriotically made them 1-2-3 choices...