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...history, that was achieved by fiery Diosdado Macapagal, 47, who not only won election as Vice President on the opposition Liberal ticket but racked up more votes than President Garcia himself. In doing so, he defeated the man the U.S. most wanted to see defeated-Garcia's running mate, Jose Laurel Jr., a pouchy-eyed lover of nightclubs and strong drink who remarked to one Nacionalista audience: "To hell with the Americans." Laurel's campaign was marked by handouts of cigarette lighters and switchblade knives, and the appearance of contraceptives inscribed: "Be safe with Laurel." (The Nacionalistas indignantly...
...Majesty chooses for me. I have complete confidence in him. Love will come after marriage." An unusual statement for a leading feminist, but then Aisha is no ordinary woman: she is a royal princess and, in the last analysis, no more free to choose her own mate than Britain's Princess Margaret...
...outbursts can have a mad-dog howl and bite. But so abruptly do things shift focus, so wildly do they change tone, that farce firecrackers negate real bullets, and virtues are turned into faults. Where, by a stylized atmosphere and a sardonic inflection, Waltz of the Toreadors could mate humor with horror, lace wormwood with Vichy. Square Root jangles with false notes. Where, again, Williams could make a dynamic-if uncentered-story of Cat, could drive abreast the three themes of a blighted marriage, a parent-and-child relationship and a girl's family-in-law, Square Root cannot...
...Nacionalista camp, Garcia's Running Mate Jose Laurel Jr. was equally frank and cynical. "No matter what you do," he told an audience of voters contemptuously, "the Nacionalistas will still control the Senate, so you had better vote for us because a Liberal candidate won't be able to get you anything." Young José, a second-generation Philippine politician whose father is still a potent force in the Senate, is at one and the same time the Liberals' greatest asset and their greatest liability...
...unmarried girl approaching 30 is apt to get an attack of the will-I's; Will I, oh will I ever find a husband? In Japan, this question throws the girl's entire family into a near panic. The Makioka Sisters is the story of a great mate hunt conducted with all the fussy protocol, near misses and ever-lurking dangers of a de luxe African safari...