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...Three Rivers, Mass., where he was raised, Ronald Dorsey was a leader in the Young People's Association. Last week in Quezon City on the edge of Manila, blue-eyed, 20-year-old Ronald Dorsey was the Philippine army's most highly prized prisoner...
Comfortably dressed in undershirt and shorts, the Supreme Bishop was drinking ice-cold beer in his Manila house when the official word was brought to him: the Manila Court of the First Instance had at last declared him head of the Philippine Independent Church. Tall, chain-smoking Bishop Isabelo de los Reyes promptly sent out a directive calling for a Supreme Council of Bishops in July to set about making Aglipayanism the national church of the Philippines...
Phillipines: G. P. Palmar 1, 26; 505 Insular Life Bldg., Manila...
These and other rumors of corruption in government circles have hurt Quirino's prestige. Last week, shortly after Manila's tabloid Star Reporter referred to him as "our beloved President . . . who is growing fat like a pig on public taxes," Quirino showed concern for public opinion and appointed his vigorously critical Vice President, Fernando Lopez, to investigate corruption in the government...
...streets of Manila, once shell-pocked and littered with rubble, are smooth again and crowded with new cars. The Quezon and Jones bridges across the Pasig River are handsomely restored; the Santa Cruz and Ayala bridges will be restored by next year. Manila's shops bulge with almost every American product from tomato juice to tractors. But despite all signs of rebirth, the Philippines are in trouble...