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Globetrotting British Historian Arnold Toynbee turned up in Manila, and after looking it over and thinking it over, reported a change of mind to the London Observer. "In spite of my affection for America," he wrote, "I have sometimes felt a touch of the same irritation as my fellow Dutchmen, Frenchmen, and Britons at hearing my American friends confidently assert that America has done better by the Philippines than the rest of us Westerners have done by those Asian and African countries that have been temporarily under our rule. My glimpse of the Philippines has changed my feelings about this...
...pills to guard against beriberi. They fought the threat of smallpox, typhoid and cholera epidemics. After the new arrivals' wounds were dressed, the most pressing problems remaining were the results of poor food and worse housing-or the lack of any. Said Brotherhood Chairman Oscar Alrenano, a Manila architect: "The Mekong can flow with penicillin, but it won't solve the problem until these people get more meat at lunch, and tiles instead of straw over their heads...
...polishing them with a handkerchief in deft circular strokes. It is an uncommonly sad face that is revealed, but the visitor notices the eyes, cool and piercing, the strong, shovel-like chin, and there is an impression of sincerity and power. At midnight Gomulka drops his pencil, closes the manila folder on an unfinished speech, a lone late-staying assistant throws a dark overcoat over Gomulka's thin shoulders, and he clumps out to his ZIS limousine, pausing a moment to look across the streets and roofs of Warsaw shining with frost. Not in his office, or in intellectual...
Speaker on the first topic will be Ceferino Padua, Chief Legal Counsel of the Welfare Administration and Professor of Law and Liberal Arts at Francisco College in Manila...
...last week unveiled a colossal monument, carved from a mountaintop and scooped out of the surrounding sea, to its determination to ring Communist China with bases. Sixty miles northwest of Manila, overlooking the calm blue wa ters of Bataan's Subic Bay, the U.S. flag was raised over land that only five years ago was an impenetrable mixture of mountain, swamp and jungle, swarming with pythons. The new Cubi Point Naval Air Station is the Navy's largest air station in Asia, and a major addition to SEATO's chain of defense...