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...broiler heat of a tin-roofed basketball stadium, 863 delegates of the Philippines' Liberal Party gathered one day last week to nominate a presidential candidate. For the first time in the party's brief postwar history, it had a choice to make. The alternatives: to renominate powerful and clever President Elpidio Quirino for a second term, or shuck him and his corruption-tainted regime and nominate peppery Carlos Romulo, ex-Foreign Secretary, ex-president of the United Nations General Assembly...
...years, Carlos Romulo had climbed fast & far from the nipa shacks and tin roofs of his little town of Camiling, 75 miles north of Manila in Luzon. A graduate of the University of the Philippines, he rose to become a Pulitzer Prize-winning newsman, bestselling author (I Saw the Fall of the Philippines), Corregidor's "Voice of Freedom," a brigadier general in the U.S. Army under MacArthur, president of the fourth U.N. General Assembly, and finally his country's dual-role envoy to the U.N. and to Washington. But he was now a long way from home...
Daredevils they were, and their countries vowed never to forget them. For four years of World War I, they got 100 m.p.h. out of tin-Lizzie aircraft that bucked like hiccuping buzzards, flying by the seat of their pants, tossing bombs like baseball pitches, extending the realm of human conflict to the third and last element...
...Sword of Fortune," a pub near Sydney's waterfront, where blood flowed almost as freely as beer. Grandma lived near by, pretending to be deaf yet privy to every racket within miles. Wilma had eight children, none legitimate. Fred, during a turn at the reform school, ate a tin of nails to spite the superintendent. Clarrie was a con man and the family intellectual: "It's a sort of poetry," he said, "to read over the names of race horses...
Considering the somber economic picture before him, these were brave words from the President. Though tin has been nationalized, the tin companies have not been compensated. Until U.S. shareholders are satisfactorily reimbursed, the U.S. is unwilling to sign a long-term contract for tin. The Bolivian economy, lopsidedly dependent on tin income, is near collapse. Unable to get permits to import raw materials, the textile industry has sharply curtailed production. Foodstuffs, normally imported, including wheat, meat, rice and sugar, are in critically short supply. Teachers are pressing for cost-of-living pay increases. The government has had to print more...