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Eleanor Roosevelt's busy life is lived in a satisfying and exhausting, self-imposed and all-inclusive sense of duty. Duty had taken her to India-and duty had prompted her to stop off conscientiously in Bangkok, Singapore and Manila on her way home. When she arrived in San Francisco this week after five months abroad, she planned to turn temporarily from gallivanting-although not simply to rest. She had to hurry East, to entertain her old friend, Queen Juliana of Holland, and then, after settling down at Hyde Park, she had to dictate her book. She planned nothing...
Homeward bound to Los Angeles, the S.S. Bright Star was leaving the northern reach of the Philippines when the watch saw dense white clouds of smoke bursting out of the bosom of the Pacific. The Bright Star's skipper reported to Manila that an underwater volcano seemed to be erupting in the vicinity of Didicas Rocks, uninhabited islets some 70 miles off the coast of Luzon...
...busied themselves with the "social apostolate" of the Church. In Jamaica, for example, Father John P. Sullivan and Father Francis G. Kempel organized fishermen's and small farmers' cooperatives to pull their parishioners out of economic trouble. Father Walter Hogan's Institute of Social Order in Manila -one of five Jesuit labor-relations schools in India and the Philippines-has bucked Filipino industrialists on behalf of striking dock and airline workers (TIME...
...Negros Occidental, second most populous province in the Philippines, everything ran on time: the buses, sugar production and the voters. The Huks were nonexistent; the roads at night were made as safe as Dewey Boulevard in Manila at high noon; sugar output, hard hit by war, had been quickly restored; and the voters knew exactly what to do -or else. Special police, armed with carbines, made sure there were no slipups...
...blood. Police pointed to bullet wounds in his back and explained that he had been shot while trying to escape. The autopsy showed, however, that Padilla's legs were broken before he was shot; he couldn't have taken a step. Magsaysay sent the body back to Manila for a military funeral and grimly set to work...