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When a touring U.S. rodeo troupe moseyed unwhooping into Manila's own White House, Malacanan Palace, pretty Teresita Magsaysay, 22, eldest daughter of the Philippines' President Ramon Magsaysay, borrowed a ten-gallon topper, looked set to ride, tall in the saddle, into the Golden West...
Dear TIME:Reader: As President Ramon Magsaysay paid a whirlwind visit to the Philippine province of Tarlac last week (see "Smiles in the Barrios" in FOREIGN NEWS), Correspondent James Bell, TIME'S new Hong Kong bureau chief, followed him in and out of a dust-coated Chrysler at each town and village. Alternately mauled, hugged, or decked in flowers by cheering crowds, Bell looked about him with more than a reporter's normal curiosity. Kansas-born, he had spent his formative years and attended high school (Brent School, class of '36) in the islands, where his father...
Politics in the Philippines is simple these days: almost everybody likes President Ramon Magsaysay. But the Filipinos also like politics. Last week the 1957 presidential campaign was launched in the usual way-with a sudden splurge of innuendos and charges of dark intrigues and double-dealing. Magsaysay's chief rival is Senator Claro Recto, a member of his own party and one of the men who first induced Magsaysay to run for President in 1952. An adroit lawyer but a disappointed politician, Recto accused Magsaysay of signing a secret document in 1952 promising to serve only one term...
...irrigation dam on the Tarlac River, ordered the engineers to use bull carts as well as dump trucks to haul dirt-it would make work for the poor people in the barrios-and delivered his favorite speech: He didn't care what the politicians said about Ramon Magsaysay. They could call him stupid, uneducated, or whatever. He was interested only in the welfare of the poor people. That's why he spent more time seeing them than studying a lot of reports prepared by professors. The crowd laughed and cheered. It was 6 p.m. before his car pulled...
...grief-stricken old man, slumped in a bedside chair in a San Juan hospital room, received word last week that he had won the 1956 Nobel Prize for Literature. The news brought no glimmer of joy to the white-bearded face of Poet Juan Ramon Jimenez. Honor, fame, and money ($38,633) no longer mattered; his wife of 40 years,"the inspiration for my whole work," as he once called her, was dying of cancer. He stood up and gently patted her hand. Then, reminded that the world expected him to say something for the occasion, he wrote...