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...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...
...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...
...stubby enough not to topple over of their own weight (as native wheat did) when heavily fertilized. Transplanted, the Mexican wheat is now doubling yields in West Pakistan, undergoing tests in India. In 1962, the Ford and Rockefeller foundations jointly set up an International Rice Research Institute near Manila. Already, its 20 scientists-half Americans, half Asians-have crossbred new strains of rice that have raised crop output in Pakistan and elsewhere...
...order for the Huks to start shooting again apparently came from Peking via Manila to the Luzon countryside, and seems to have been aimed at provoking a national outcry at Marcos' recent decision to send Filipino troops to Viet Nam. So far, the Huk outbreak is far too small to spark a keep-the-troops-at-home reaction. Marcos, who as a guerrilla leader became his country's most decorated World War II hero, intends to make it smaller yet. He has seeded the troubled area with loyal officials who fought with him against the Japanese...
...Empire is gone. The pound is going down - and now even skirts seem to be. The Beatles were hooted out of Manila, and the national cricket team is currently getting clobbered by the West Indies. Still, England oscillates. The cause of the excitement is an ugly, 12-in.-high trophy known as the World Cup and symbolic of supremacy in soccer - a game that seems tame to Americans, but still is the most popular spectator sport on earth. In London last week, after years of trying, England finally won the World Cup by defeating West Germany...