Word: arsenio
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President Carlos Garcia for a second term and picking his running mate. As with everything that Garcia touches, the convention reeked of money. "No delegates in history were ever as pampered, catered to, wined, dined and 'womaned' as these delegates," said Manila's sharp-tongued Mayor Arsenio Lucson...
Edited Disk. Tough, trenchant and tenacious, Arsenio Lacson reminds many Americans of Manhattan's rambunctious Fiorello La Guardia, who also served three terms. Like La Guardia, Lacson cleaned up a corrupt administration and a wide-open city; he fired 600 incompetent job holders. Night after night, Lacson patrols Manila in a black police car, returns from time to time to a corner table at the Bay View or Filipinas hotels, where he listens to complaints and requests, or talks profusely on a plugged-in telephone, punctuating his conversations with shots of whisky and four-letter expletives. Sunday nights, Lacson...