Word: barong
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...contest most vital to Macapagal was for eight seats in the 24-man Philippine Senate, where, he complains, the twelve Nacionalista Senators have thwarted his ambitious programs for land reform, industrialization and control of inflation. Wearing his traditional baseball cap with its presidential insignia, and clad in a white barong tagalog (a light, loose-sleeved shirt), Macapa gal stumped the grass roots explaining his aims of "making capitalists out of workers...
...against Communism-during four hectic days in the Philippines. ''He is not afraid to shake my hand even if my shirt is dirty," cried a shopkeeper whom Nixon met on a whirlwind trip into the countryside. In Manila, where he donned a green-embroidered, white barong tagalog before addressing a huge youth rally, he shook hands with more than 5,000 students...
...changing his grey business suit for slacks and an "aloha" shirt. Having been a resident of both the Philippines and Hawaii, I can assure you that the shirt he is wearing in the picture accompanying the article is not an aloha shirt. Magsaysay and his buddies are wearing "barong fcagalogs," which are considered to be the national dress shirt in the Philippines...
...Lanao Province on the Philippine island of Mindanao this week, 10,000 fighting Moros sharpened kris, barong, campilan, tabas and spear for a fight to the death and no mercy asked...