Word: magsaysays
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...Transformation. In the two years since the death of able, hard-driving President Ramon Magsaysay (TIME, March 25, 1957), amiable, luxury-loving Carlos Garcia and his friends have done much to diminish the luster of the Philippines as Asia's democratic showcase. A costly industrialization program, crop failures, fluctuating export prices, corruption and administration ineptitude have caused gold and dollar reserves to sink to a scant $100 million. (The nation's trade deficit last year was $120 million.) While the fat cats of the Garcia administration whoop it up at posh Manila gambling joints, 1,360,000 Filipinos...
...nothing more than an attempt to cover up corruption and divert the voters' attention." So far Garcia's assaults on the U.S. have had no substantial visible effect on the affection in which the mass of Filipinos hold the U.S. -an affection so strong that Ramon Magsaysay used to proclaim: "Let who ever wants run as an anti-American. I'll run as an open pro-American and beat him easily." Recalling Magsaysay's max im, some of Manila's political pundits thought that Carlos Garcia was making the biggest mistake of his long political...
First gift announced by the Rockefeller-endowed Philippine foundation named for the late President Ramon Magsaysay: $10,000 to India's gentle, bearded Vinoba Bhave (TIME, May 11, 1953), for community leadership. A dhoti-clad disciple of Mohandas Gandhi, Ascetic Bhave seven years ago set out walking the land to talk landowners into giving 50 million acres free to landless families, so far has collected some 7,000,000 acres, 2,500 entire villages. Said the citation: "He has sought nothing for himself, least of all recognition of his achievements, and has won the highest respect of his countrymen...
...month for Thai. Now the planes are grounded because the airline does not have enough money to operate them. Philippine Air Lines almost came a cropper by pushing too hard on international flights to the U.S., Japan and Europe, lost so heavily that the late Philippine President Magsaysay finally called a halt...
Shadow Cabinet. Sitting in an outer wing of the presidential palace watching these goings-on is young Vice President, Diosdado Macapagal, a Magsaysay follower who, running on the Liberal ticket, got more votes for Veep than did Nacionalista Garcia for President. Since Macapagal refused to change his party after the election, Garcia barred him from any Cabinet post. Completely isolated ("I only learn what's going on from reading the newspapers"), Macapagal has been subjected to every kind of palace snub. If his air conditioner breaks down, maintenance men take weeks to fix it. When official limousines were handed...