Word: imelda
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...nervously, as she signed the guest book at the presidential palace. Judy's shyness was offset by the easygoing enthusiasm of Apollo 10 Astronaut Eugene Cernan, who accompanied the Agnews on the first week of their tour. With an arm around Judy Agnew, Cernan told Philippine First Lady Imelda Marcos: "We feel the moon belongs to everyone." "Ah," beamed Mrs. Marcos, "as in the American song...
...Osmeña's charges of corruption in his government. "I would not lie to you and say there is no corruption, but it is being reduced to a minimum," he said in his campaign speeches. When Osmeña indiscreetly charged that Marcos' beautiful wife Imelda owns "the largest gem collection in Asia," Filipinos felt he was being ungallant...
Afterwards, as the grey, 280-ft. yacht knifed back across the inky waters toward Manila, Marcos' comely wife Imelda, a former Miss Manila, led the guests in a conga line. At length, Mrs. Marcos approached the TIME group and announced, "Now, the entertainment." Once they realized what she had in mind, the American guests rose and serenaded their Filipino hosts with a spirited, if slightly off-key Auld Lang Syne...
...nearly so many as Channing's offstage performance. After she had completed a rousing encore, the President gave her a bear hug and a kiss, soon whisked her onto the floor for a fox trot-the first time he has danced in public since his celebrated solo with Imelda Marcos at the Manila Conference. As the rest of the revelers stood aside to watch, L.B.J. smiled gamely, his face all but obscured by the red ostrich-feather hat that covered his Dolly's tangerine-colored...
...pink bandanna around his neck and a wreath of white sampaguitas-the Philippines' national flower-on his head, sampling suckling pig, barbecued crab claws, pickled papaya and coconut punch laced with rum. When the band struck up Hello, Dolly!, the President loped out onto the marble floor with Imelda while guests scrambled atop chairs and tables for a better view. Alone, the couple danced through one chorus, Lyndon lumbering around in his Texas two-step, Imelda crooning the words to him. Still alone, they danced to a second chorus. When the band struck up the tune a third time...