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...Philippines' President Ramon Magsaysay, in office only two weeks, soon regretted his glowing invitation to Filipinos, extended in his inaugural speech, to telegraph complaints directly to the President. From all over the islands, thousands of long wires of woe crackled into Manila. Hastily, Magsaysay trimmed down his generosity: henceforth, though they may still be sent free, telegrams must wail in 50 words or less...
Magsaysay got to work by 5 a.m., and told his Cabinet he expected them to work 20 hours a day when necessary. He announced that Malacanan would henceforth be known as the "official residence," not the palace; he would be called Mister, not Excellency; and he and all top officials would immediately publish a full statement of their assets. (His own: $13,179.) He set up a "Complaints and Action Commission." He dictated an executive order that complaint telegrams may be sent for 10 centavos, or free should that be too much for a poor man to pay. He wanted...
...groups of two of their most potent gods, the Mudheads and the Shalakos, among the white men. After due deliberation, the chiefs sent a delegation to the Indian Commissioner in Gallup, N. Mex., 33 miles north of the pueblo, to protest against the sacrilege and to inform him that henceforth the great Zuñi pueblo would be closed to all non-Zuñi visitors...
...begun in 1912), there were no lynchings in the U.S., according to Alabama's Tuskegee Institute. In making the announcement last week, Tuskegee concluded that "lynching as traditionally defined and as a barometer for measuring the status of race relations . . . seems no longer to be a valid index." Henceforth, the institute will base its annual report on other criteria...
...court that found Beria guilty was headed by a Red army general, Marshal Ivan S. Konev. This led to a rush of speculation that Dictator Malenkov had called in the army to break Beria's secret police and that the generals and marshals henceforth must be regarded as the chief power behind the throne in Moscow. Eight Red army men also sat on the supreme court bench that tried Marshal Tukhachevsky and half a dozen other high-ranking officers in the purge...