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...governor of Manila, have been amassing huge fortunes. Their blatant influence peddling has prompted one amazed diplomat in Manila to observe: "It's incredible what they've taken over." Marcos' sister Elizabeth Marcos Keon, for example, is governor of Ilocos Norte province, and Benjamin ("Kokoy") Romualdez, Imelda's brother, who owns the Times Journal, one of the capital's major dailies, is governor of Leyte province and heads the League of Provincial Governors and City Mayors. Roberto Benedicto, a frequent Marcos golfing partner, has acquired three television stations since martial law was imposed (giving...
...attacks on George Wallace and Lee Harvey Oswald, a slim, thirtyish man in a dark suit tried to stab to death the beautiful, popular wife of Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos, and millions of people watched it live and in color or in replays. Television crews, assigned to cover Imelda Romualdez Marcos, 43, as she presented awards in a national beautification and cleanliness campaign, caught the entire action...
...lifting. U.S. Presidential Press Secretary Bill D. Moyers bustled from airport to embassy to Malacanang Palace (the Filipino White House) making arrangements for everything from protocol dinners to a Lyndon-and-Lady Bird tour of nearby Corregidor. Marcos' aides wrote hurried position papers, while his First Lady, lovely Imelda Romualdez Marcos, supervised a hurry-up renovation of the palace itself. The twittering of sparrows in the upper reaches of the palace reception hall was drowned in the rattle of hammers and snarl of saws...
...sportsman and Lothario: when he wasn't blasting quail and ducks with his 20-gauge Browning over-under, he was breaking hearts in Forbes Park. That ended one day in 1954 when he wooed and won the daughter of one of the islands' wealthiest families. Sugar-rich Imelda Romualdez, cousin of House Speaker Daniel Z. Romualdez, was crunching watermelon seeds as she listened to Marcos orate in the House. When Marcos finished, he went up to the erstwhile Miss Manila (a proudly packaged 36-23-35) and asked: "Would you mind standing up, please?" Back to back, Marcos determined that...
...court-enjoined strike by the engineers against Pan American World Airways. Out of his paneled office suite overlooking Constitution Avenue, Goldberg ricocheted from one bargaining table to another-most evenings until past midnight. One night he left the reception he was giving for Philippine Labor Secretary Norberto Romualdez Jr. to get back to the Pan Am meetings, carried along with him hors d'oeuvres and turkey slices that served as dinner for the negotiators, who finally reached a settlement at 2 a.m. Next night the same stale leftovers sustained Goldberg and the deadlocked Eastern parties until the early hours...