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...JAMES MANUEL...
Following the spread of Islam throughout Southeast Asia, Moslems dominated the southern Philippines for five centuries. They successfully defended their culture against the Spaniards who conquered the rest of the Philippines and against the Americans who replaced them. A Moslem decline began in 1938, when Commonwealth President Manuel Quezon proclaimed Mindanao the "land of opportunity," and Christian Filipinos from the crowded north started moving in. Better educated, the Christians gained control of Moslem land and of the region's economy. They also practiced religious discrimination in employment and education. Though the Moslems number more than 2,000,000, they...
...true that Manuel ("El Cordobés") Benitez, the recently retired bullfight star, had promised to marry his girl friend if she bore him a son? Not exactly. It was undeniable that pretty, young Marline Rayasse last month did bear him a son, Manuel II (they also have a four-year-old daughter). At the baptism, the 36-year-old ex-matador said that the birth of his son "has persuaded me that I must marry." As to the date, however, he was skittish. "If one morning when I get up," he said, "I have mischievous ideas and she feels...
...Resources & Chemical Corp. Its president, Robert H. Allen, is chairman of the Texas finance division of the Nixon re-election committee. G. R. & C. transferred the money to a subsidiary in Mexico, Compania de Azufre Veracruz, S.A. This firm, in turn, gave it to one of Allen's attorneys, Manuel Ogarrio Daguerre, of Mexico City. Ogarrio converted the $100,000 check into $11,000 in cash and four bank drafts, apparently related to the size of the original gifts. An unidentified courier carried the money back to Houston. There it was placed in a suitcase along with $600,000 more...
...rolled into the Boston Garden not too long ago and brought back some home-town favorites: the infamous Caruso, the Black Demon, Little Brutus and his midget tag-team,' and of course Bruno Sammartino. While Caruso (left) amused the crowd with his rope-chokes and ring-side histrionics and Manuel Soto, a local darling, summarily stomped the Black Demon (right), everyone waited for the big match between Sammartino and Turo Tanaka, "Professor of Jujitsu...