Word: luneta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Washington and Manila is the Laurel-Langley Trade Agreement of 1956, which perpetuates that error. Still, when the date came for Philippine independence, the U.S. kept its word. On July 4, 1946, for better or worse, the philophilic strains of the Filipino national anthem rang out over war-battered Luneta Park, and the child of America's great experiment walked free...
...sullen tropical sun beat down on Manila's Luneta Park, searing the faces of 200,000 Filipinos and a perspiring U.S. Vice President Hubert Humphrey. It glinted off the wave crests of Manila Bay and turned the green finger of Bataan into a quivering blur. U.S.-built jets of the Philippine Air Force bellowed past at palm-top level as President Ferdinand Marcos rose to deliver his inaugural address. The speech was as scorching as the heat...
...reception had been a blazing triumph, hailed by more than a million Filipinos, flower-laden girls, boisterous, cheering mobs, tons of gaily colored confetti-the warmest welcome he had received since his historic visit to India. Now hundreds of thousands of Filipinos gathered in Manila's bayside Luneta park for a civic reception. Ike and President Carlos Garcia were standing on the ramp of a concrete bandstand, reviewing a military parade. A U.S. Army Signal Corps team had installed a White House telephone near by; it had been left on an upturned yellow oilcan. As Ike watched the parade...