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...Show Business Correspondent Martha Smilgis tracked the high school sophomore through two weeks of stroboscopic contrasts, from a film festival in the Philippines to Rome, where Shields starred in Valentino's spring-summer showing. Along the way were elegant dinners of suckling pig and mango pudding with President Ferdinand Marcos at Malacanang Palace in Manila, a cruise with Mrs. Imelda Marcos on the presidential yacht, and a celebrity-studded evening at Valentino's Rome apartment. Smilgis, a former reporter at SPORTS ILLUSTRATED and writer at PEOPLE, has interviewed hundreds of celebrities from John Travolta to Sophia Loren...
Benigno S. Aquino Jr., a leader of the opposition movement in the Philippines and currently a fellow at the Center for International Affairs, yesterday called Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos' plans for presidential elections in May "an exercise in futility" and added that he does not expect to return to the Philippines to run for office...
...still unfocused and drifted around Europe, doing a little film acting in Vienna and Munich, visiting museums. After coming home, she returned the next year to Paris "to really study." On the boat she had an improbable involvement with the bitterly anti-Semitic French novelist Louis-Ferdinand Céline, who, she says, wanted to marry her. ("Don't you know that fanatics, if they hate Jews, love to marry Jewish women?") It was from this trip that she came back fully determined to be a professional. Nevelson enrolled at the Art Students League, joined the Mexican muralist Diego...
When Imelda Romualdez Marcos, wife of Philippine president Ferdinand E. Marcos and a member of his martial law cabinet, visited Tufts University in 1977, over 1000 protesters disrupted her visit and mobbed her as she left the university's grounds...
Several Asian specialists refused to fill the chair, named the Ferdinand E. Marcos Chair for East Asian and Pacific Studies, as a protest against Marcos's imposition of martial law in 1972, sources said yesterday...