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...want Recto on the party's ticket in the November election (TIME, Aug 8). Recto declared open war and began firing hotter and hotter "open letters" at the President's palace. The issue was joined. Last week, as the Nationalist Party held its nominating convention in Manila, the time had come for a test of strength between...
...original colors as the artist himself must have seen them." ¶Manila rope, built a 120-ft. tree house in the jungle to get above the trees and came back with 4,000 negatives. (LIFE used 29.) ¶ Photographer Margaret Bourke-White dangled from a cable dropped from a helicopter for aerial views of the U.S. ¶ In a Florida lagoon. Photographer Hank...
Born. To Armi Kuusela, 20, Finland's blue-eyed 1952 Miss Universe, and Virgilio Hilario, 28, well-to-do Philippine real-estate man; their first child, a son; in Manila. Name: Gil Aarne. Weight...
...Filipino fight fans took exception to Featherweight Champion Sandy Sadler's rough-and-ready tactics in a nontitle fight with Manila favorite Flash Elorde. While Sandy was firing at Flash with head and elbow, the crowd was taking pot shots at the ring with stones and pop bottles. The referee penalized the champ so often for dirty fighting that Elorde had no trouble winning a unanimous decision...
...others to the 10,000-ft. level, but at that point he noticed a couple of small avalanches break off to one side. After talking it over, the boys decided to start back down. Suddenly apprehensive, they slipknotted themselves onto a length of quarter-inch Manila line. It was another error-mountaineers never use slip knots, lest the ropes tighten around their midriffs...