Word: manila
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...telephone, which, thanks to 24 wet-cell stand-by batteries, worked. First call was to Tokyo, where, with a 14-hour time lead, the week was well under way. Tokyo staffers copied the telephone queries for the bureau as well as those for relay to Hong Kong, Manila and other Far Eastern news centers. Calls to Paris, Bonn and London followed...
...terms in the islands' 19 years of independence. But Marcos' flair as a campaigner may well have caused the landslide. Brimming with vigor, he stumped through virtually every barrio in the archipelago and delighted thousands of voters by warbling duets with his beauteous wife Imelda, the Miss Manila...
Marcos comes by his exciting image rightfully. As a law student at Manila's University of the Philippines, he was a member of the boxing, wrestling and swimming teams and became the national small-bore rifle champion. Largely owing to his reputation as a good shot, he was convicted in 1939 of having murdered a political opponent of his Congressman father. Marcos graduated from law school while free on bail with the highest mark in Philippine history and took on his own defense as his first case. Arguing before the Supreme...
...InterAmerican Bank, it will be run largely by Asians. At Bangkok this week and next, the sponsoring nations are expected to decide how the organization will be set up and where it will be located, thus paving the way for a ministerial meeting to be held Nov. 29 in Manila to sign the charter. If the governments involved ratify the treaty this winter as expected, the bank should begin operating...
Combat, for instance, is so popular in the Far East that when its star, Vic Morrow, visited Manila, several schools just surrendered and declared a holiday. Perry Mason is so well known in Italy that his name has become a synonym for lawyer; in certain circles in Portugal, you don't call a Cabinet minister a clunkhead but a "Mr. Ed." Dr. Kildare is top-rated in places as far afield as Poland and Southern Rhodesia. And Bonanza, which is seen in no fewer than 59 countries, tots up a weekly world audience of 350 million...