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...television coverage of their president's gala visit this past week to the United States. After having been picked up by a unit of the Philippines' armed forces in August 1981, he was tortured for three days, briefly released and subsequently murdered. During the 17-year rule of President Ferdinand Marcos, hundreds of other Filipinos have met similar fates...
...will be his first visit to Washington since he called on Lyndon Johnson in 1966, and Philippines President Ferdinand E. Marcos is determined that everything will be perfect. He appointed his brother-in-law, Benjamin Romualdez, as Ambassador to Washington expressly to handle the U.S. trip. In recent weeks, Manila's leading corporations and advertising agencies have dispatched their top public relations executives to convince the skeptical U.S. media that Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos, who are scheduled to set foot on the White House lawn this week, are just about the best friends that Washington has in Asia...
...scene at Manila's Malacañang Palace leaves little doubt that the two most powerful people in the Philippines are both named Marcos. While President Ferdinand Marcos receives a constant stream of visitors in his study, which is just off the main reception hall, First Lady Imelda Romualdez Marcos holds court next door in the music room. Last week, a few days before leaving on his trip to the U.S., the President discussed at length his wife, human rights and other issues with TIME Hong Kong Bureau Chief Ross H. Munro and Manila Stringer Nelly Sindayen. Excerpts from...
...near the exit there's a long black car with your initials on the license plates, you may want to instruct Charles to zip you over to Ferdinand's (121 Mt. Auburn St.) or the Harvest (44 Brattle St.), two of the city's more prominent $30 per person eateries. Beware of the stampeding Brahmins and scheming Harvard administrators, both of whom turn up at these spots for lunch...
Sometimes, the urge does not vanish. The results are alarming. This month Ferdinand Waldo Demara Jr. died. That was his final career change. His obituary listed nearly as many metamorphoses as Ovid did. Demara, "the Great Impostor," spent years a his life being successfully and utterly someone else: a Trappist monk, a doctor of psychology, a dean of philosophy at a small Pennsylvania college, a law student, a surgeon in the Royal Canadian Navy, a deputy warden at a prison in Texas. Demara took the protean itch and amateur's gusto, old American traits, to new frontiers of pathology...