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...probably drop its international routes and sell its fleet of 4 DC-6s and DC-6Bs. The government-subsidized air line needs $5,000,000 immediately to buy four Douglas DC-7s to compete with other carriers, another $15 million over the next ten years for jet liners. President Magsaysay would rather forgo the prestige of an international line, spend the money on rural projects and on improving domestic air service...
...Barrow or Gus Dorias 69. Alfred Duff Cooper or John Simon 70. Kennedy 71. Adensuer 72. MaCarthy 73. Elizabeth 74. Hiller 75. Auriol 76. Magsaysay 77. Eden 78. Hutton 79. Augusta 80. 4 81. 4 82. 3 83. 1 84. 3 85. 3 86. 5 87. 3 88. 1 89. 1 90. 2 91. 3 92. 1 93. 3 94. 2 95. 1 96. 3 97. 2 98. 5 99. 1 100. 1 101. 1 102. 5 103. 2 104. 4 105. 1 Just for Fun 1. Admiral Hyman George Rickover 2. Chief Justice Earl Ickover 3. Pope Pius...
...Philippines' President Ramon Magsaysay, in office only two weeks, soon regretted his glowing invitation to Filipinos, extended in his inaugural speech, to telegraph complaints directly to the President. From all over the islands, thousands of long wires of woe crackled into Manila. Hastily, Magsaysay trimmed down his generosity: henceforth, though they may still be sent free, telegrams must wail in 50 words or less...
...Magsaysay got to work by 5 a.m., and told his Cabinet he expected them to work 20 hours a day when necessary. He announced that Malacanan would henceforth be known as the "official residence," not the palace; he would be called Mister, not Excellency; and he and all top officials would immediately publish a full statement of their assets. (His own: $13,179.) He set up a "Complaints and Action Commission." He dictated an executive order that complaint telegrams may be sent for 10 centavos, or free should that be too much for a poor man to pay. He wanted...
...their way from Seoul to Manila for the inauguration of the Philippines' President-elect Ramon Magsaysay (see FOREIGN NEWS), Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Arthur W. Radford and his wife Marian, along with Assistant Secretary of State (for Far Eastern Affairs) Walter S. Robertson, stopped off for two days in Formosa. There, in the Taipei home of Nationalist China's President Chiang Kaishek, the visitors struck a family-album sort of pose for photographers with the Generalissimo and Mme. Chiang...