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During a breather between her official duties Luz Banzon Magsaysay, pretty wife of Philippines President Ramon Magsaysay, was pictured cool and carefree in Manila...
Says Tom Cuffe: "You've got to be quicker, faster and better . . . Our only chance to beat the cheaper foreign competition is to be ahead of them. With the Mariners we'll get to Japan in eight days instead of twelve, and to Manila in twelve instead of 18. That'll give us a lead for six ... or eight years ... In the meantime . . . we'll have to think of some way to keep ahead...
...foreign affairs spokesman, chairman of the Senate's armed services committee and dominant member of its foreign affairs committee. From those strategic points, he is busily at work sniping at the works of Magsaysay and of the U.S. His objectives and motives are hotly debated in Manila. His dominant ambition at the moment seems to be to cut Magsaysay down to size. Since Magsaysay is the republic's most ardent pro-American, Recto attacks him by attacking things American. Recto himself maintains that he really likes...
...merely wants to show it, as a friend, how to be right and effective in Asia. But Americans in Manila have come to feel that the U.S. can well do without this particular kind of friendly help...
...rate come to about the same end. Recto currently opposes U.S.-and Magsaysay-policy on such crucial questions as the status of U.S. bases in the Philippines, trade terms, mutual security arrangements. One day not long ago, he enraged an American at a Lions Club meeting in Manila. The American asked if he simply refuses to trust the word of the U.S. He would trust the U.S., Recto answered, only if he had its signature on paper...