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Angry Carlos Romulo was undecided whether to run as a third-party candidate, or to throw his strength to Nacionalista Nominee Ramon Magsaysay, the Huk-fighting ex-Secretary of Defense...
...which to combat Quirino's political skill, his control of the party machinery and of governmental patronage. The odds were heavy against him. Should he manage to beat the islands' slickest politician for the nomination, his opponent in the November election would be the popular Huk-slayer, Ramon Magsaysay. But was Carlos Romulo downhearted? True to form, he beamed a toothy smile for photographers, uttered a headline: "I will not retreat...
Choice of Weapons. In Albuquerque, N. Mex., Ramon Toledo, carrying a knife when arrested, was fined $40 for tearing an 8-in. gash on his wife's arm-with his teeth...
Across the sea of white shirts and sun-brown faces floated the name of 45-year-old Ramon Magsaysay (pronounced wag-sigh-sigh), the fast-rising, Huk-fighting phenomenon who resigned as Secretary of Defense and quit President Elpidio Quirino's Liberal Party six weeks ago to join the Nacionalistas and wage war on Liberal corruption. Young businessmen, industrialists and army officers, and Filipino housewives-most of them political amateurs with the same kind of contagious enthusiasm as the amateurs for Ike and Stevenson-pitched in with U.S.-style posters and buttons and such slogans as "I sigh...
...vote of 705 to 49, the Nacionalistas chose Ramon Magsaysay. Against President Quirino, his seasoned and clever old boss, Amateur Magsaysay has a good chance-provided the elections can be kept as clean as they were two years ago, when Magsaysay's devoted soldiers did what they could to police the polls...