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Golly they're cute. Bodger, for instance, is an amiably rheumy old bull terrier who can hardly stand up to a fireplug. Tao, Bodger's best friend, is a maniacally active Siamese cat who seems to think he's a dog. Luath is a big, dumb, blond, delightfully floppy Labrador retriever who pals around with the other...
...Chiu-yin, city editor, Sing Tao Evening News, Hong Kong. He studied economics at Canton University, has been on the Sing Tao staff since 1946. He plans to study history and philosophy...
...first image has endured since last November's election campaign against the corrupt Carlos Garcia regime, when Macapagal ran as a tao (common man) who would never forget his humble beginnings. The second was created when the U.S. Congress unexpectedly voted down the long-promised Filipino war claims of $73 million, and Macapagal swiftly canceled a scheduled official visit to Washington (TIME, May 25). Since then, talking about Laos, Macapagal has needled the U.S. for failing to back the anti-Communists of Southeast Asia and for throwing its support to "neutralists." It seems, cracked Macapagal, that...
...took on still another Western power by claiming Philippine sovereignty over the 29,387 square miles of British North Borneo.* More significant than these cocky gambits is the fact that Macapagal seems determined to base them on democracy and free enterprise at home. He understands the challenge, for the tao, with whom Macapagal identifies, are desperately poor, unlike the top 10% of the Filipinos who receive nearly half the nation's personal income. An estimated 5,000,000 peasants have a per capita income of only $27 a year, which means malnutrition and rags. Unemployment and underemployment...
...feverishly busy first weeks almost convinced the tao that Macapagal might eventually solve the nation's problems of corruption, unemployment, poverty. He seemed to be everywhere-at political conferences, on the waterfront to inspect goods confiscated by customs guards, wielding a billiard cue in the government press office, or in the chamber of the Philippine Congress, both of whose houses are dominated by the Nacionalista opposition. In his 72-minute State of the Nation address last week, Macapagal said, "It's wasted effort to steep the young in virtue and morality only to let them realize as they...