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...Peru's Manuel Odria, 60, seized military power in October 1948, headed a junta until 1950, when he had himself elected President. He ran off what was supposed to be a well-planned election in June 1956, watched in dismay as his hand-picked successor lost, then slipped off into obscurity...
Still Life. In Fall River, Mass., Manuel V. Oliveira Jr., 44, who lost the city's garbage-disposal contract last October, was arrested by federal agents for operating an illegal distillery, admitted he spent $5,500 converting his garbage-cooking plant into a still...
...confident Crimson fencing team opens its season tomorrow against Cornell. The sabre squad will be headed by previous All-American Mitchell Thomas in the match to be played at Ithaca. Douglas Rennels, an All-Ivy fencer with Thomas last year, fills the No. 2 spot. Manuel Cabral and Michael Woolf complete the heavily favored Crimson squad...
Almost everybody in Baja California shares the boom's excitement. Said prosperous Mexicali Air-conditioning Executive Manuel Garcia Prieto: "My wife and I just took a long-delayed vacation in New York. We saw My Fair Lady and Long Day's Journey into Night and Tosca. We'd planned to stay two weeks, but at the end of the first week I suddenly felt strange. I told my wife: You'll think I'm crazy, but I want to go back to Mexicali. It's hot in the summer and dusty in the winter...
...thousands homeless. That night, sallow little President Carlos Garcia. 61, sat in a friend's home outside Manila, listening to the election returns and playing game after game of chess with an aide. When the radio reported that both the Liberals' Jose Yulo and the Progressives' Manuel Manahan were running ahead of him in Manila, Garcia played so badly that the aide won. But as the counting went on, the President's chess got better. By the next afternoon the typhoon that had swamped his rivals' Luzon strongholds had blown out to sea, the aide...