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...Philippines, flooding villages, blocking roads, making thousands homeless. That night, sallow little President Carlos Garcia. 61, sat in a friend's home outside Manila, listening to the election returns and playing game after game of chess with an aide. When the radio reported that both the Liberals' Jose Yulo and the Progressives' Manuel Manahan were running ahead of him in Manila, Garcia played so badly that the aide won. But as the counting went on, the President's chess got better. By the next afternoon the typhoon that had swamped his rivals' Luzon strongholds...
...that was achieved by fiery Diosdado Macapagal, 47, who not only won election as Vice President on the opposition Liberal ticket but racked up more votes than President Garcia himself. In doing so, he defeated the man the U.S. most wanted to see defeated-Garcia's running mate, Jose Laurel Jr., a pouchy-eyed lover of nightclubs and strong drink who remarked to one Nacionalista audience: "To hell with the Americans." Laurel's campaign was marked by handouts of cigarette lighters and switchblade knives, and the appearance of contraceptives inscribed: "Be safe with Laurel." (The Nacionalistas indignantly insisted...
Brown's Ed Sullivan was the race's individual winner. He led right from the start and was never headed thereafter. Reider and Jose Iglesias of Columbia, who eventually took fourth, kept at Sullivan's heels for the first mile, but fell back somewhat when the race moved into Van Cortlandt's infamous hills...
Cronin's and all other business establishments now located in the block bounded by Mass. Ave., and Dunster, Holyoke, and Mt. Auburn Streets will be able to rent store space in the new combined Health Center and Administration building to be constructed on that site. Jose Luis Sert, Dean of the School of Design and architect for the building, disclosed this last night...
...Nacionalista camp, Garcia's Running Mate Jose Laurel Jr. was equally frank and cynical. "No matter what you do," he told an audience of voters contemptuously, "the Nacionalistas will still control the Senate, so you had better vote for us because a Liberal candidate won't be able to get you anything." Young José, a second-generation Philippine politician whose father is still a potent force in the Senate, is at one and the same time the Liberals' greatest asset and their greatest liability...