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Only 35 miles from Manila, the Philippine barrio (village) of Santo Nino is a town out of the Middle Ages-without plumbing, electricity or medicine. One cause of Santo Nino's squalor is its isolation; for centuries its only access to the outside world has been a winding trail over which common folk move on foot, the more prosperous on donkey back. Last week, sweating under the tropical sun, 200 half-naked men and boys from Santo Nino were hacking out a broad, five-mile highway to take out the village's production of timber, copra and rice...
...Santo Nino's farm-to-market road is part of a quiet revolution in the Philippines' 24,000 rural villages. Bureaucratically known as PACD (for office of the Presidential Assistant on Community Development) and financed by the U.S. International Cooperation Administration and the Philippine government, the four-year-old village-improvement program shines out in startling contrast to the grubby corruption that has come to dominate Philippine public life once again under the regime of indulgent President Carlos Garcia...
President-elect Roberto F. ("Nino") Chiari, 55, is a birthright member of the moneyed cluster of families that have run Panama since the republic was founded in 1903. He was by no means the choice of the nationalistic mob that last November riotously invaded the U.S.-run Canal Zone to plant the Panamanian flag there. Since the other two candidates were equally patrician and soberly bent on keeping Canal Zone sovereignty out of the election, the mob did not get a choice. Chiari's win was chiefly a response to the perennial Latin American urge to upset the incumbent...
...Nino Chiari, a serious, quiet man, is the heir to a family fortune in ranching, sugar and dairy farming, which he has built up by riding his ranges in shirt-sleeves and keeping an austere eye peeled for signs of waste or obsolescence. This year conservative Chiari campaigned on muted issues of harder work, fewer government employees, more development projects and fewer showcase public works. He made only a mild plea for the right to fly the Panamanian next to the U.S. flag: "I cannot see what harm it can possibly do a country as large...
Included in the program were German Composer Hans Werner Henze's atonal, heavily percussioned fairy tale, The Emperor's Nightingale; Polish-born Composer Alexander Tansman's Stravinsky-flavored exercise, New Clothes for the King; Italian Composer Nino Rota's The Cunning Squirrel. All three were hits. Henze's work, in particular, won a shrill, twelve-minute ovation. But defenders of the moppets' taste were badly shaken when Carlo Franci's Final Comedy and Giorgio Ghedini's Girotondo-both tricked up with flung pies, flying paintpots and banana-peel pratfalls-seemed to touch...