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President Elpidio Quirino was hopping mad last week. He accused the U.S. embassy in Manila of "siding" with the opposition Nacionalistas against his governing Liberal Party...
...Japan, the outward confusion is shaken down to meaningful comprehension. What Author Frank Gibney has tried for, and achieved, is a character analysis of the Japanese nation. He has succeeded-perhaps better than anyone else so far-in explaining how decent Japanese could become the brutes of Bataan and Manila, why they are now worthy of trust and important to the free world...
...everywhere. "I am the market," he says. "I buy and sell sugar any time, day or night." Last week, as Cuba's 5,000,000-ton sugar harvest rolled toward the market, Lobo operated right around the clock, closing deals with New York, London, Frankfurt, Paris, Rio and Manila, involving millions of dollars...
Even so, Dr. Ellinger thought it would be a good idea if one of the younger women came to Manila so that he could study her language. Unafraid of her exotic appetite, he gave up the idea only when he learned her price: 50 pesos plus his hand in marriage...
...mayor of Manila won his case handily. Last week the Philippines supreme court dismissed the alleged libel as "fair comment," and ordered Arsenio Lacson reinstated as mayor...