Word: filipinos
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Except for the Negritos, the Filipinos are basically Malayan stock with a mixture of Caucasian and Mongolian. The U.S. Supreme Court once ruled that they are not Caucasians; the state of California has ruled that they are not Mongolians. The Filipinos' own smiling explanation: a god and goddess once inhabited the earth, got lonely and decided to create man. They fashioned a man out of clay and baked it in an oven, but it was overcooked and came out black. They tried another but it was undercooked and came out white. The third was cooked to a just-right...
...Catholic. But there are some 700,000 Moslems (the proud, independent tribesmen on Mindanao and Sulu whom the Spaniards named Moros after their own Moors), pagans (some 625,000), Buddhists (about 47,000), Shintoists (13,000), Protestants (600,000) and more than 2,000,000 members of the Filipino Independent, or Aglipayan, Church, an offshoot of Catholicism...
...owed the police a little reward for past favors, talked. From Hong Kong the trail led to Manila, and grew hotter; once a jeep full of Tommy-gun-toting men ran Ogden to the curb and almost did him in. Finally, in the dusty villages outside Manila, he and Filipino intelligence agents discovered the grassroots base of the racket...
...drugs have benefited Patient Stein but created personnel problems for Editor Stein. Staff members are discharged from Carville when the disease is arrested. Besides six Texans, the Star's staff now includes a Cuban, a Mexican, a Virgin Islander, a Dutch Guianan, a Hawaiian, a Samoan and a Filipino...
...General MacArthur's right-hand men (as a full colonel) in recapturing the islands. As a result, he can wear a cluster of decorations (including the Silver Star) on his Reserve officer's uniform. He sends a daily ration of free beer to the Filipino troops fighting in Korea...