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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cities. In Manila, brash, gun-toting Arsenio Lacson, one of Garcia's archenemies, won a third term as mayor by a 2-to-1 majority; in Cebu City, Sergio Osmena Jr., son of the Philippines' wartime President, was elected mayor despite the fact that Garcia had sent down Osmena's own father to campaign against him. Easy frontrunner among the 32 candidates for the eight Senate seats was Liberal Ferdinand Marcos, a handsome veteran of the Bataan Death March, who emerges as a man to watch in Philippine politics. Way down in 14th place was colorless Juan...
With these restrictions in mind, a horde of tipped-off tabloid photographers descended on Club 84 and Father Gussoni, who panicked and fled. Trailed by the flashbulb boys to another nightspot, Gussoni and his friends sent out a waiter "disguised" as the priest to lead them off the scent, but one alert photographer simply followed raincoated Father Gussoni home and snapped another picture...
...Hill. Colby dreamed of moving to a comelier, 650-acre site on Mayflower Hill, outside Waterville. Beginning in 1933, square-jawed President Franklin W. Johnson hunted the money ceaselessly. One man sent $20,000 just because he pitied Colby as he passed by on the train. But World War II canceled construction and dashed the dream. When Bixler arrived, Mayflower Hill had only three completed buildings and five shells. Old Colby (enrollment: 651) still squatted on the wrong side of the tracks...
...command car of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel as he sped away from his Normandy headquarters on the morning of June 4, 1944, D-minus-two. Rommel, charged with throwing back any invasion attempt, planned to ask Hitler for reinforcements during his visit to Germany, but something more personal sent him on his trip. June 6 was his wife's birthday, and the Desert Fox planned to surprise her with the grey suede shoes...
...temperance lecturer, bound him so closely that he remained a tormented celibate into his mid-40's. Vachel tried first to be a doctor and later an artist, but at Hiram College he made good conversation and bad grades. He wandered to New York, wrote verse, painted, and sent passionate letters of contrition when his hard-pressed parents suggested that he get a job. In 1906, full of guilt and despair, the 26-year-old drifter began the first of his great walking trips...