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...frustrations, the harsh disappointments, and the serious occupational hazards-as one volunteer put it-of 'dysentery and boredom.' In a sense, the most unsettling challenge the volunteer faces is his publicity. A generous world press has drawn an unvarying image of volunteers effortlessly spouting Pushtu, Swahili, or Tagalog, of volunteers winning legions of friends while transforming economies ... To sum up: while the Peace Corps may not be as good as its reputation, it is almost as good as its intentions...
...education, providing textbooks, mostly for elementary schools, in music, arithmetic, spelling, geography and history. Its texts are in use in all 50 states and in 113 countries, and it has published books in such languages as Bengali. Urdu. Thai. and. for the past 60 years in the Philippines, in Tagalog. Last year its sales totaled $7,500,000. As a subsidiary of TIME Inc.. it will continue to operate with its present management and staff in Morristown X.J.. but will now be able to make use of our corporate resources, including our reference library of 50,000 books...
...went on to the university while holding down a minor job as an accountant. After two years, he had to quit school because of ill health and lack of money. Returning to Pampanga, he joined a boyhood friend, handsome Rogelio de la Rosa, in writing, producing and acting in Tagalog operettas patterned after the classic Spanish zarzuelas. Macapagal married his friend's sister (she died during the war, and he is now married to handsome Evangelina Macaraeg, a physician). As for De la Rosa, he went on to star in Tagalog films, becoming known as the "Clark Gable...
...Luzon's rural slums, Macapagal is a professor of law and doctor of economics who became a strolling actor to help pay his way through law school, and won campaign points by improvising Tagalog poetry right on the stump. Barred these three years from the government's councils by the jealous Nacionalistas, Vice President Macapagal has had little to do but recite an occasional poem in the boondocks, cultivate his excellent relations with the Americans, denounce the Garcia administration for venality and torpor, and impatiently await the Liberal hour. Now he proclaims himself the spokesman...
Dance. The Bayanihan (roughly meaning "Togetherness" in Tagalog) Philippine Dance Company opened on Broadway to critical cheers. Founded at the Philippine Women's University in 1957, the troupe has an active repertory of some 40 folk dances practiced in all areas of the Philippines, from the mountain villages of the north to the Moslem country of the south. The dances were as varied as the Arabic, Malayan and Spanish ethnic influences that formed them: a Bontoc war dance had loinclothed dancers running and bounding about in a blur of flailing shields and spears; a wedding-party dance...