Word: magsaysayism
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When TIME Correspondent Jim Bell interviewed Philippine President Carlos Garcia last May, two months after Ramon Magsaysay's funeral, Garcia made it perfectly clear that he intended to seek the presidency on his own this November. Last week Correspondent Bell, back in Manila, spent three hours with the President while Garcia chain-smoked Chesterfields and described the political maneuvering that brought him the Nacionalista Party nomination for President. For the lively story of how he did it, with delegates and decolletage, see FOREIGN NEWS, Here Comes Charley...
When mild little Carlos Garcia took over as President of the Philippines after the plane-crash death of the nation's beloved Ramon Magsaysay last March, Garcia announced, in a paraphrase of Harry Truman, that he felt as if he had been hit by a ton of bricks.* Like Truman, he was a faithful member of an old political machine, was picked as Vice President on straight party considerations, and seemed no man to fill his predecessor's larger shoes. Charley Garcia, 60, was expected to serve out the remaining nine months of Ramon Magsaysay's term...
Nothing but Nice Things. But Garcia resembled Harry Truman in another way: he was determined to make it on his own, and he had a way of confounding the experts. Last week in Manila, as the last of 1,300 delegates to Garcia's (and Magsaysay's) Nacionalista Party convention packed up to go home, Garcia had the presidential nomination in his pocket (with 888 votes on the first ballot). At Garcia's feet lay the defeated Nacionalista paladins who had sought to deny him the nomination, including Nacionalista Party Boss Eulogio ("Amang") Rodriguez, Garcia...
Married. Linda Garcia, 22, daughter (and only child) of Philippine President Carlos P. Garcia, who took over from the late Ramon Magsaysay in March; and Fernando Campos, 24, a Manila lawyer; in Manila...
...what of Magsaysay's young crusaders? Chief among them is young (41) Manuel P. Manahan, an ex-newspaper publisher who organized the Magsaysay-for-President movement. During the war he served on Bataan and Corregidor, was imprisoned by the Japs at infamous Fort Santiago. Tall and stocky, Manuel Manahan has many of the mannerisms and some physical resemblance to the late President. He ran the President's pet project, the Complaints and Action Committee...