Word: murder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bathroom Murder. The ruling Liberal Party, headed by incumbent President Diosdado Macapagal, is running scared. The Nacionalistas are crowing that public-opinion polls show their candidate, Senate President Ferdinand Marcos, neck and neck with Macapagal. Both candidates have published glowing biographies. The President's, entitled Macapagal-The Incorruptible, runs over 200 pages. His rival's, called For Every Tear a Victory, is not only fatter and more fulsome, but has been made into a film that runs for three weepy hours. A Manila critic described it as a trilogy: "The first part is about Marcos, the second part...
...Wednesday, September 22 BOB HOPE PRESENTS THE CHRYSLER THEATER (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).*Jack Lord, Pat O'Brien, Sheree North and Dana Wynter get involved in a murder trial...
This sort of brutal treatment, says the author, explains why the Chinese people-49 years later-welcomed with open arms the Communist victory in 1949. As for the accounts of mass murder perpetrated by the Reds (Chairman Mao himself modestly admits liquidating 800,000 landlords and capitalists from 1949 to 1954), they are horror stories invented by Western propagandists. In her eyes, Communist China has done no wrong, its leaders are the most kindly of men, and she visits Peking every year. "What astonished me most," says Suyin, marveling at Mao's benevolence, is the sight of "old warlords...
...Harrington of Cambridge and told them to be themselves. I figured some of those sedate, quietly dressed society women would scream or faint, but the vestal virgins in the Coliseum never looked on with more calm than these high and haughty dames as they watched these two babies murder each other...
...have a brainwashed Bond attempt to execute M. This is 007's first understandable failure to complete an assignment. But after that, there is the reliable villain with the strange name, Scaramanga, a master assassin who uses only a golden gun, believes in sexual intercourse before every murder, and has "a third nipple two inches below his left breast." There is the girl. Since there have already been twelve books, and since he never beds with the same type twice, 007 has to fall back on his previously unattainable secretary, Mary Goodnight. It may have been just as well...