Word: filipino
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nicely-Nicely Johnson. From then on, it was a whirl of receptions and dinners. Imelda, dressed for each occasion in one of 40 butterfly-sleeved Filipino ter-nos that she had brought along, was usually the center of attention. Her yellow terno caught Lyndon Johnson's eye. "That is my favorite color too-yellow," he told her. "Actually," she confided later, "my favorite color is pink. But he is the President...
...stunning wife Imelda, Miss Manila 1954, who, at 36, is still so pret ty that the latest Filipino entry in the Miss Universe contest could declare without diplomatic deference that at least one woman in the islands was better-looking: the President's wife...
...Washington, Marcos and Imelda were escorted to the north portico of the White House. There Lyndon Johnson's warm greeting reflected his gratitude for Marcos' decision, in the face of strong congressional opposition and strident criticism from local leftists and nationalists, to commit a 2,000-man Filipino force to Viet Nam. On the eve of his departure for his 15-day U.S. swing, Marcos had seen off 700 members of a security battalion before they boarded two Saigon-bound troopships. Said Johnson, obviously moved: "Your people and mine have shared suffering and victory...
...compensation to Filipino veterans of World War II and their de pendents, whose long-debated claims now total $800 million. While Congress will not agree to any such amount, one State Department official says that the final settlement is likely to be "a substantial...
...turned into Ladies' Day in Manila as South Viet Nam's Premier Nguyen Cao Ky flew in on a four-day state visit to express his gratitude for the 2,000 Filipino troops President Ferdinand Marcos has sent to help fight the Viet Cong. Along with Ky came his wife Mai, 24, and the airport crowd crushed forward for a better look as she stepped off the plane, strikingly beautiful in a white silk ao-dai. Then the home team brought up its reinforcement: First Lady Imelda Marcos, 36, Manila's beauty queen in 1954 and still...