Word: corazon
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...litany had become so predictable that spectators at the public hearings in Manila's steel-and-glass Social Security System building groaned at each recitation. Then last week the room began to buzz expectantly as former Appeals Court Judge and Commission Chairman Corazon Agrava announced a brief recess because of "an important development." The commission members took the elevator to the twelfth floor, then quietly descended to the parking lot and were whisked to Bangkal, a seedy area of Makati across town...
...very grateful. It brought back some sad memories, but also many happy ones," said Corazon C. Aquino, who flew in from the Philippines to attend the service...
...make them. And Harry Romanoff, 73, who retired in June as an editor of Chicago's American after more than 40 years, was quite a man. His reporters tell, for instance, the time in 1966 when Richard Speck was accused of murdering eight nurses (missing only Corazon Amurao, a Filipina), Romy assumed an accent and began phoning around town as the Philippine consul. For a follow-up story, Romy decided to dig up details of the accused man's marriage and troubled early life. He got the phone number of Speck's mother, called and identified himself...
Momentary Tears. During three hours of direct examination by Prosecutor Martin and 1 i hours of cross-examination by Getty, Corazon remained unshaken and-except for a few momentary tears-unsentimental. She accounted in cool syllables for each of the wood blocks, labeled with her former roommates' names, that Martin removed from a scale model of the five-room apartment where the girls were killed. As Martin lifted the block labeled Merlita Gargullo (another Filipina who had moved into the apartment two months before the killings), she offered the recollection that the murderer had asked Merlita: "Do you know...
Final Victim. Corazon said that the killer later asked Patricia Matusek, 21, who was wearing a yellow nightgown: "Are you the girl with the yellow dress?" It was a possible confirmation that he had watched the girls enter and leave the apartment from a park near by. Apparently none of the victims put up a violent struggle, according to the survivor, though three of the girls had cried "ah!" in muffled voices. One of the Philippine nurses cried "masakit!"Tagalog for "it hurts...