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Leonardo da Vinci's Landscapes, Plants and Water Studies (Johnson Reprint Corp.; $4,600; after Dec. 31, $5,500) reproduces 70 sheets of drawings, unbound and printed recto and verso, from the hand and mind of genius. Whether he drew acorns, flowers, an oncoming thunderstorm or doodles, Leonardo worked magic. This project is every bit as magnificent as its price. The drawings come in a large portfolio box, accompanied by a 250-page volume of text and notes; the whole production is partly bound in royal blue Nigerian goatskin. It would be less expensive to jet to Britain...
Died. Claro Recto, 70, Philippine Senator and violently outspoken nationalist; of a heart attack; in Rome, while on a world tour. Lawyer Recto presided over the framing of the Philippine constitution in 1934-35, served as Foreign Minister in the puppet government set up by the Japanese in World War II, returned to the Senate at war's end. An early supporter of the Philippines' late President Ramon Magsaysay, Recto soon turned bitterly against him, claimed that Magsaysay had welshed on a promise to serve only one term. Recto avidly sought the presidency for himself but never could...
...could fill his predecessor's unfillable shoes. Independent Manahan, who tried so hard to shrug into the lost leader's mantle that he retouched his campaign photos to heighten his physical resemblance to Magsaysay, finished a respectable third with 20% of the vote. Fourth: Senator Claro Recto. 67, candidate of landlords and anti-American intellectuals...
...votes on the first ballot). At Garcia's feet lay the defeated Nacionalista paladins who had sought to deny him the nomination, including Nacionalista Party Boss Eulogio ("Amang") Rodriguez, Garcia's onetime mentor, who went down to defeat with 69 votes, and bitter, professionally anti-American Claro Recto, Magsaysay's most implacable enemy, who won a humiliating 14 votes...
...ambition, a seat in the Supreme Court. This someone might be either Nacionalista Party Chief Senator Eulogio Rodriguez, or adroit old Yaleman (Law School '20) José Laurel Sr., who was puppet President during the Japanese occupation. Another eager to run is Magsaysay's old enemy Claro Recto, who was puppet Foreign Minister. It was not an impressive lineup...