Word: sampaguitas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...This is one "Flip" who flipped over your cover story on the Philippines [Oct. 21]. It's all there-my country's "crazy kind of charm": from the potholed roads to careening Jeepneys to urchins peddling the sampaguita, our national flower, plus all the reasons why I am proud to be a Filipino and can hardly wait to go back home. TIME, you're d'best! Mabuhay...
...both sides of the sluggish Pasig River, the city straddles a grey-green current that carries both sewage and water lilies into Manila Bay. Many of its streets are potholed; rats chitter behind the wainscoting of its finest restaurants; street urchins peddle everything from lottery tickets to fragrant sampaguita garlands ?all at outrageous prices. The current craze requires shops to have a D apostrophe preceding the English names, as in D'Artland Gallery, D'Elegant Theater, D'Stag Cocktail Lounge and D'Best Furniture Store. Why? "It's classy," explains a Filipino. "It's French...
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