Word: ramone
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Your Aug. 24 article on Filipino Presidential Candidate Ramon Magsaysay told of Magsaysay hurrying home and changing his grey business suit for slacks and an "aloha" shirt. Having been a resident of both the Philippines and Hawaii, I can assure you that the shirt he is wearing in the picture accompanying the article is not an aloha shirt. Magsaysay and his buddies are wearing "barong fcagalogs," which are considered to be the national dress shirt in the Philippines...
Dressed casually in slacks and tan printed sport shirt, Huk-fighting Ramon Magsaysay (TIME, Aug. 24) called last week on Rival Presidential Candidate Carlos P. Romulo, in Romulo's palatial home outside Manila. For half an hour they talked in a study jammed with autographed photographs, medals and other mementos of Romulo's career among the celebrities of the world, as brigadier general, ambassador and U.N. Assembly president. Then they came out smiling, to announce Romulo's withdrawal from the race and the throwing of his support to Magsaysay in the November elections. Now there will...
...invited him to Denver. Carlos Romulo was handicapped by the fact that his campaign had not caught on, and that he felt it necessary to issue daily statements that he would not pull out because of "my sacred duty to thousands." That left most of the excitement to Ramon Magsaysay, the Huk fighter...
...sung by Eleanor Steber, in her first German-language appearance in Germany; Astrid Varnay turned in a solid performance as Ortrud. Some critics said it was the best Lohengrin they could remember. Two 'other Met stars scored in the Parsifal: George London as Amfortas and Chile's Ramon Vinay as a slightly Latinate Parsifal...
...Ramon Magsaysay is running against his former chief for the presidency of this country...