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...Manila's waterfront used to be run by a combination of the tough Union de Obre-ros Estivadores de Filipinas (U.O.E.F.) and certain employers and politicians who played ball with U.O.E.F. The union capataces (work-gang leaders) collected money from the shippers, paid off the workers themselves. In the days when there were as many as 25 ships in the harbor, the capataces' rake-off amounted to $25,000 a week...
Francis J. Elizalde '54 of Manila, the Philippines and Massachusetts Hall was elected manager of the freshman swimming team yesterday at the close of a competition for the post...
Hans and his brother Fred got visas for the Philippines, hoping eventually to begin life anew in America. Six months after they got to Manila, the Japanese attacked. Both men volunteered their services to the U.S. Army and went into action. They fought through the whole campaign on Luzon, went through the Bataan death march, spent three years in Jap prison camps. Fred was later killed by American bombs, but Hans-stricken with tuberculosis and weighing only 90 Ibs.-was still alive...
...full of hope. He believed that his war service entitled him to citizenship. Then he was told that he had merely been a civilian employee of the Army, and could expect none of the citizenship favors bestowed on aliens who serve as U.S. soldiers. He stayed in shattered Manila three more years, spending his back pay from the Government on medical treatment. Finally, in 1949, he got a visa to the U.S. He was shipwrecked off Okinawa; by the time he got to San Francisco, the TB had flared up again...
...over the world, gold smuggling has become a big business. In Hong Kong last week, British authorities seized $24,500 worth of smuggled gold on a plane from Manila. At London's airport three weeks ago, inspectors found an 18-year-old Indian girl with $5,600 worth hidden under her sari. In India, which bans gold imports without license, air smugglers were reported dropping gold by parachute and landing small gold-laden planes in remote clearings. This craze for gold was reflected in Wall Street last week where speculators snatched up gold-mining stocks (e.g., Dome and Homestake...