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Filipino Protestants gathered in downtown Manila's gothic United Church last week to celebrate a milestone event: the commissioning of missionaries to foreign lands. The Rev. Jorge R. Quismundo, 29, was off with his wife to teach in Celebes, the Rev. Jose D. Estoye, 29, and his wife were bound for Thailand. They were the first missionaries to be sent abroad by the new United Church of the Philippines...
Dressed casually in slacks and tan printed sport shirt, Huk-fighting Ramon Magsaysay (TIME, Aug. 24) called last week on Rival Presidential Candidate Carlos P. Romulo, in Romulo's palatial home outside Manila. For half an hour they talked in a study jammed with autographed photographs, medals and other mementos of Romulo's career among the celebrities of the world, as brigadier general, ambassador and U.N. Assembly president. Then they came out smiling, to announce Romulo's withdrawal from the race and the throwing of his support to Magsaysay in the November elections. Now there will...
...last week, after giving a speech on economics (not his strongest subject) to the Manila Junior Chamber of Commerce, Magsaysay hurried home, changed his grey business suit for slacks and an aloha shirt, and set out in an air-conditioned Cadillac for the barrios...
...driving rain, Magsaysay was whisked through bamboo forests into Pampanga province, the last region of the islands where the Huks are still strong. A limousine with six bodyguards led the way; a jeepload of Manila police guarded the rear. Peasants, alerted that Magsaysay (pronounced wag-sigh-sigh) was coming, waved and grinned from beneath their huge dripping salakots (hats). As the convoy sloshed into Manalin, a public address system blared the catchy Magsaysay Mambo: "Mambo, Mambo, Magsaysay,/ Our democracy will die,/ If there is no Magsaysay...
...limousine headed back towards Manila, with a guard pointing a cocked carbine through the window into the rainy night, Magsaysay nervously cracked his knuckles, and predicted that he would get 60% of the votes if the election were free. He accused Quirino of hoping to stay in office by fraud and intimidation. If the election is stolen, said Magsaysay, "the Philippines will become a banana republic at the mercy of the Communists...