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...will not dare. Aquino is idolized by the Filipino people," said administrative officer Nila S. Fish...

Author: By David M. Lazarus, | Title: Aquino to Visit Harvard Next Week | 9/15/1986 | See Source »

...diaries begin Dec. 27, 1935, shortly after he arrived in Ma nila to help Douglas MacArthur build a Philippine defense force. He was 45 and a major, with dubious prospects for advancement; like Grant before Fort Sumter, he was waiting for events. The last entry is dated March 14, 1967, two years before his death. Again like Grant, he had been elevated to the presidency - tout served with far greater success. In 1962 Historian Arthur Schlesinger Sr. asked 75 prominent "students of American history" to rate the Presidents up to 1961. Eisenhower, the 34th and last in line, came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Behind the Huck Finn Face | 8/3/1981 | See Source »

...Nila Gussie, a NSDL program specialist, said yesterday that institutions with an unusually high number of overdue accounts may face sharp cutbacks in NSDL and work study grants next year...

Author: By Mark D. Gearan, | Title: National Loan Program Starts Payment Crackdown | 10/7/1975 | See Source »

...Died. Nila Mack, 62, for 23 years writer-producer-director of the Peabody Award-winning children's program Lets Pretend (CBS's oldest continuous dramatic show); of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Blonde, childless Widow Mack's Saturday fairy-tale program espoused courtesy and kindness, has long been something of an anachronism on air waves full of G-men, spacemen and cowboy mayhem, yet continues to draw 500-odd letters a week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 2, 1953 | 2/2/1953 | See Source »

...Aunt Nila's Story Hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: News Quiz | 10/27/1952 | See Source »

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