Word: taos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...highest bidders. Cynics wondered whether Macapagal's first moves were only part of a pose-he put up for sale Garcia's $2,500,000 presidential yacht Lapn-Lapu and his twin-engine Fokker turboprop plane, canceled the traditional inaugural ball to mingle with the tao (common people) at an outdoor dance. During his first month in office he began to convince the country that he meant to keep his pledge...
...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...
...President of the Philippines, Diosdado Macapagal, has long appealed to the electorate as a tao (common man) who will never forget his humble beginnings. "I come from the poor. Let me reap for you the harvest of the poor. Let us break the chain of poverty. Let me lead you to prosperity!" he cried at his campaign whistle stops. "I have sat at the sumptuous tables of power, but I have not run away with the silverware...