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...Bordeaux, then 15,000 miles and 18 months later, shot a picture series on the Philippines' preparation for war-which he sent off to LIFE one day before Pearl Harbor. He and his wife and fellow TIME correspondent, Shelley Smith Mydans, spent 21 months in Japanese prisons in Manila and Shanghai, were repatriated on the Gripsholm...
Under the watching eyes of Manila police, Taruc strode to the office of President Elpidio Quirino in Malacanan Palace, thrust out his hand to Constabulary General Mariano Castaneda, whose main job for two years has been to hunt Taruc. Castaneda ignored the hand, frisked the man. Taruc carried no weapons (though the seven-man bodyguard he brought along yielded, among other items, nine pistols, two submachine guns and two crowbars). Later, having pledged his loyalty and cooperation to the government and watched President Quirino sign the amnesty, Taruc seized the constabulary chief's hand and pumped it vigorously...
Fighter's Lot. In Manila, the Supreme Court thought & thought, finally delivered itself of the opinion that a dead rooster could be declared the winner of a cock fight provided it had died while on the offensive...
...gave the Philippines something more than political independence: an imitative regard for "the American way." Filipinos take it to mean hustle and enterprise. Their islands are booming. War-battered Manila is largely restored, with gleaming new buildings sprouting up from rubble. Herds of shiny cars weave through the downtown traffic, spin along the wide boulevard around the bay. Filipinos have adopted some other symbols, too: jukeboxes blare U.S. tunes by day and neon signs glow in profusion at night. In the once-gutted Great Eastern Hotel, new robin's-egg-blue elevators shoot up to a cool, spacious ballroom...
...Leaf. After surveying the disaffection and devastation in the central Luzon provinces, President Quirino was back in Manila last week. Said he: "I made the trip to learn exactly what the people expect from the government and what they have against it. . .I think they are ready for the government and officials to turn over a new leaf." Quirino ordered the constabulary to withdraw its patrols, not fight unless attacked. To Luis Taruc, the Huk commander, he sent word that he was ready to offer a general amnesty if the Huks would turn in their guns. But lean Communist Luis...