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...volatile leader, like peppery Ramon Magsaysay, who was killed in a plane crash seven years ago. Diosdado (Spanish for "God-given") Macapagal, at 54, is well-meaning but dour, a self-proclaimed "poor boy" from the distant provinces who prefers conservative business suits to the cool, frilly barong tagalog sport shirt favored by Manila sports and Magsaysay...
...neighborhood is called Diliman, which in Tagalog means darkness, and when Romulo took over, the school was living up to the name. His first task was to persuade the Manila Electric Co. to put in $25,000 worth of outdoor lighting equipment. Since then, 37 modern, low-lying buildings have gone...
Diplomas in Tagalog. If the university's funds were low when Romulo took over, so was its morale. The salary raises squelched some faculty grumbling, and Romulo named a batch of 18 faculty committees to give the faction-ridden teachers a sense of responsible participation in the administration. He was equally tactful toward the young rebels in the student body of 18,000, shamed them into abandoning a demonstration against Visiting Prince Akihito of Japan by offering to help with the picket signs it the students promised to keep their protest dignified. Philippine nationalists, who opposed Romulo...
...Gospels printed on glossy paper in the Tshibula dialect and illustrated with grainy photographs of local scenes. In Valladolid, an illiterate Spaniard can hear a dramatic reading of Mark 5:21-43 played on a record. On the island of Mindoro, a Filipino farmer can scan a Bible in Tagalog...
...most vital to Macapagal was for eight seats in the 24-man Philippine Senate, where, he complains, the twelve Nacionalista Senators have thwarted his ambitious programs for land reform, industrialization and control of inflation. Wearing his traditional baseball cap with its presidential insignia, and clad in a white barong tagalog (a light, loose-sleeved shirt), Macapa gal stumped the grass roots explaining his aims of "making capitalists out of workers...