Word: laurelled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...laurel-hung veterans closed a chapter. In Hollywood, after only a year of a three-year NBC contract, Producer-Director Fred Coe announced that he was quitting the network. Said Coe, who developed such playwrights as Paddy Chayefsky and Horton Foote, and put on Television Playhouse, Producer's Showcase and Mr. Peepers: "Plans and ideas that I have submitted have either been ignored or have drawn no interest. On the other hand, I have been given no assignment. A silent telephone on your desk is a terrible thing." In Manhattan, after seven successful years in daily morning...
...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 was marked by handouts of cigarette lighters and switchblade knives, and the appearance of contraceptives inscribed: "Be safe with Laurel." (The Nacionalistas indignantly insisted that...
...rebelling against the Nacionalistas' cynical attempt to force on them Jose Laurel Jr., and splitting their votes to elect Macapagal, Filipinos had taken a major step toward mature democracy...
...sent Dr. White an electronic tracing of Stephanotis' heartbeat. The good doctor, who also takes an interest in the tickers of whales, took one look and pronounced the colt fit. Reassured, Stephanotis won last week's classic Cambridgeshire Handicap at Newmarket and earned an invitation to Laurel (Md.) for the Washington, D.C. International later this month...
...principal candidates, Laurel alone shows a coolness toward the U.S. ("The Americans favor countries like India and Japan over us because they know we won't go Red"). But like the others, he wants more U.S. money to stabilize the nation's economy. Under Philippine law, separate votes are cast for President and Vice President. Many who concede Garcia will probably win the presidency think there is a good chance Laurel will be defeated by the Liberals' Diosdado Macapagal, 47. A poor boy become lawyer and economist, Macapagal claims longtime friendship with Magsaysay despite later political differences...