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...carat diamond ring, the Sarah Bernhardt bracelet, the seven-strand baroque pearls and all the rest -stashed in a Hattie Carnegie dress box camouflaged with old lingerie under the bed. When the horrified insurance company protested, nonagenarian Cosmetics Czarina Helena Rubinstein had the jumble of jewels packed up in manila envelopes and squirreled away under E for emeralds and R for rubies in a locked filing cabinet. No need for all the fuss, though. Three hoods tried to rob her a year before she died last spring, and elfin Helena angrily screamed them out of the bedroom of her Park...
Lake Taal is a pleasant all-day-picnic's drive from Manila. Taal's waters are clear and blue, and in its center rises a 984-ft.-high island, which has its own interior lake, Lake Bonbon. To tourists, Bonbon provides a particular thrill-a look into the eye of a giant killer. For the island in Taal is, in fact, the shell of a volcano, and Lake Bonbon its submerged core, the result of a mighty eruption in 1911 that killed 1,335 people. Since that holocaust, Taal had hardly bubbled out a smoke ring, and some...
...Both candidates have published glowing biographies. The President's, entitled Macapagal-The Incorruptible, runs over 200 pages. His rival's, called For Every Tear a Victory, is not only fatter and more fulsome, but has been made into a film that runs for three weepy hours. A Manila critic described it as a trilogy: "The first part is about Marcos, the second part is about Marcos, and the third part is about Marcos...
During a diplomatic reception in Manila some years ago, a guest with a tenuous grip on the English language grew more and more perplexed. Finally he turned to another guest. "Who," he asked, gesturing toward an obviously important U.S. official, "is this man they call Mr. Bastard right to his face...
...April, Striker made a troubleshooting swing through the Far East looking into our communications problems, notably at Saigon, with its one overtaxed radio-cable circuit to New York via Manila. More lines were the answer, but how to get them? Clark came down from his base in Manila, and the three men and their colleagues went to work on the problem. Striker found some electronics equipment lying unused in the Saigon cable office. Van Dieu agreed to provide six new channels to Manila. Clark agreed to establish radio channels to the Philippines and link them to the Transpacific cable...