Word: magsaysayism
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...Romulo withdrew and threw his support to Magsaysay...
These shirts are very expensive and are usually elaborately embroidered. The peasants would surely think that it was kaululan (madness) if Magsaysay were to do his campaigning in an aloha shirt...
Your Aug. 24 article on Filipino Presidential Candidate Ramon Magsaysay told of Magsaysay hurrying home and changing his grey business suit for slacks and an "aloha" shirt. Having been a resident of both the Philippines and Hawaii, I can assure you that the shirt he is wearing in the picture accompanying the article is not an aloha shirt. Magsaysay and his buddies are wearing "barong fcagalogs," which are considered to be the national dress shirt in the Philippines...
Dressed casually in slacks and tan printed sport shirt, Huk-fighting Ramon Magsaysay (TIME, Aug. 24) called last week on Rival Presidential Candidate Carlos P. Romulo, in Romulo's palatial home outside Manila. For half an hour they talked in a study jammed with autographed photographs, medals and other mementos of Romulo's career among the celebrities of the world, as brigadier general, ambassador and U.N. Assembly president. Then they came out smiling, to announce Romulo's withdrawal from the race and the throwing of his support to Magsaysay in the November elections. Now there will...
Romulo, though his campaign had not caught fire, was not abandoning his own four-month-old splinter political party: it will be in a coalition with Magsaysay's Nacionalistas, and if the coalition wins, will share in the spoils (presumably Romulo would be reappointed Ambassador to the U.S.). Said Romulo: "They say a wise captain doesn't take his ship through a storm, but makes a detour. I am making a detour...