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...convention vote needed for nomination. On the first ballot, Puyat got 487 votes to 375 for Finance Minister Dominador Aytona, 43, the energetic reformer whom Garcia brought into his administration to crack down on the more flagrant examples of corruption. Two hundred twenty-five votes went to Senator Quintin Paredes, a wealthy tobacco grower from northern Luzon...
...student at Oxford, Quintin McGarel Hogg was enraged when his father accepted a peerage, which he foresaw would banish him into the "political ghetto'' of the House of Lords and prevent him from becoming Prime Minister (TIME, Sept. 30). Now Viscount Hailsham, Lord President of the Council, chairman of the Conservative Party and a remorseless Tory, Hogg was asked on a BBC show if he, though a member of the House of Lords, could hope to become Prime Minister. "Nobody but a fool," his lordship blurted, "would want to be Prime Minister...
...chariot of the goddess of love, according to classic mythology. The doves of British Author Manning's novel are yoked to illusions about love. Dove No. 1 is a breathless 18-year-old country girl named Ellie Parsons whose ideal of love is losing her virginity to Quintin Bellot, a middle-aging charmer-about-London. Dove No. 2 is married to Dove No. I's Prince Charming, but Petta Bellot has always operated on the theory that variety is the spice of love. Since Quintin believes that "we are all victims, one of another," both girls have...
...Stormy Tory Leader Quintin Hogg (now Viscount Hailsham) wrote that if Christ returned, "we should learn again a secret, lost now to all except the saints in heaven-his sheer gaiety and charm, his incredible vitality, his spontaneous wit . . . Can you imagine anything but a smile when he nicknames the gentle John and his brother 'The sons of Thunder'? Is there not a light of amusement as well as seriousness when the impetuous Simon finds himself for all the ages called 'The Rock' . . . ? Christians have puzzled for centuries over the unjust judge and the fraudulent steward...
Crimson coach Norm Shepard will start the same men who opened in last week's 60 to 41 defeat of M.I.T. Because Bill Borah had to quit the squad on account of illness and a back injury has forced Quintin Stiles to give up basketball, Buddy Lemay has been added to the roster...