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...Married. Ramón Magsaysay Jr., 26, only son of the Philippines' late President; and Isabel Delgado, 22, Manila socialite; in Manila...
...state like Texas, or "Coonass country," as the Governor calls its rural hinterland. Fenstemaker goes with the job as red beans go with fatback. His instincts are generous, his vision broad, even if his political methods are not exactly taught in civics class. To ram a school bill through his ornery legislature takes all the wiles of a sagebrush Machiavelli...
Such inequalities are more than mere statistical curiosities. In Hawaii, the left-wing International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's 'Union has been able to elect, and then to influence, legislators outside the heavily populated island of Oahu. The union therefore can ram almost any labor legislation through the legislature at the expense of Honolulu's underrepresented businessmen. Dominant farm legislators in Delaware have maintained a law that requires a farmers' market to be situated on a main street of Wilmington. Florida's Dade County (Miami) supplies 25% of the state's gasoline...
Perhaps the most accurate prediction was made by Shastri's 85-year-old uncle, Ram Pershad. Gazing at his newly eminent nephew, Ram Pershad said, "Yes, he is now Prime Minister, and now he has just created a thousand enemies...
...jetfighters, capable of speeds up to Mach 2.2 and bristling with Soviet infrared homing rockets, were plotting to shoot down President Johnson as he flew to Miami for a Democratic fund-raising dinner on Feb. 27. If they failed in that, the Cubans would try to flash in and ram the President's plane kamikaze-style...