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...salt water. Cholera victims are weakened and killed by a catastrophic loss of body fluids through vomiting and diarrhea (as many as 15 quarts in a day); they can nearly always be saved by prompt, aggressive treatment, in which saline solution is given intravenously, sometimes with sodium bicarbonate. The Manila government did not get enough of the solutions or the equipment to administer them...
Stocky and quick-smiling, Macapagal (pronounced Mock-a-pa-gahl) was born 51 years ago in a palm-frond hut in rice-growing Pampanga province, north of Manila. His first name means "God-given" in Spanish. His mother was a devout Roman Catholic who taught catechism to schoolchildren, and his father wrote poetry in the local dialect. Since poets do no better financially in the Philippines than anywhere else, Diosdado Macapagal's family was often hungry...
SENATOR QUINTIN PAREDES Manila...
Died. Sergio Osmeña. 83. second president (1944-46) of the pre-independence Philippine Commonwealth, a shrewd, patient public servant who contributed a rare note of moderation to Philippine politics for nearly 40 years; of a heart and kidney ailment; in Manila. A landowner's son of part-Chinese ancestry, Osmeña began his campaign for Philippine independence after the suppression of the 1899 insurrection against U.S. rule, rose from speaker of the first Philippine Assembly to vice president of the Commonwealth, succeeded to the presidency of the Philippine government-in-exile when fiery Manuel Quezon died...
...said it more imaginatively than I could over hope to, but basically, let's face it, he's right! All us guys were pretty perturbed when we goofed and scored on that freak round out (this happened at 5:45 of the second set). Gee," he murmured, "did old Manila Folder chew...