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...months ago when top Communists Mariano Balgos and Guillermo Capadocia left Manila for the mountain hideout of insurgent Luis Taruc, many a Filipino concluded that Taruc's Hukbalahap followers would soon be on the rampage again. Last week the crackle of Huk gunfire spread through troubled Luzon...
Bangkok's nightclubs are currently in the grip of a new dance craze. The ram-wong has spread to Hong Kong, Singapore, Manila, and experts say it will hit the U.S. soon. It is a modernization of an ancient dance, in which couples curve back their fingers, spin and weave about each other, but never touch. King Phumiphon should love...
Last week, the Musni family and Father Coronel, friends no longer, were glaring at each other across a Manila courtroom while a judge weighed the legal answer to a delicate question that had disturbed the whole Philippine Republic: Was Father Coronel legally married to Gloria Musni...
...back at the time. After the ceremony, Father Coronel said, he returned to his parish, finally managed to slip away from the ever-watchful Musnis and escape 600 miles away to Zamboanga. Last fall, after church authorities had declared the marriage void, Father Coronel returned to Manila. He filed a suit asking for a civil annulment and financial redress from the Musnis. He was met by the Musnis' countersuit for 100 pesos monthly alimony and 10,000 pesos moral damages. Alfredo Musni gave the following version of Gloria's marriage...
...night Chambers left one of these meetings and went home to his Westminster, Md. farm convinced that "Hiss was determined to destroy me-and my wife, if possible." From the house of a relative in Brooklyn, he recovered a dusty manila envelope which had been hidden there for ten years. He had given it to the relative in 1938 when he broke from the party, with instructions to open it if anything should happen to him or his wife, Esther. In the envelope were 43 typed copies of State Department documents and four memoranda in Alger Hiss's handwriting...