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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...
...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 gorgeous. The Kys and the Marcos hit it off handsomely at the state banquet that night. After the usual exchange of medals, a four-man combo took over. And as President Marcos led Madame Ky, while Ky squired Imelda...
...hollered "Go to hell!" and "Get out of our country!" John Lennon and George Harrison were roughed up against a wall, and Ringo was pushed down and kicked. What had the Beatles done? They had failed to show up at a scheduled luncheon with the wife of the President, Imelda Marcos. (The lads later claimed they were never invited.) Even a formal apology by the British embassy couldn't cool Philippine tempers. And the boys did nothing to help their image when they finally returned to London. "I didn't even know they had a President," sniffed Lennon...
...corruption-the main theme. Macapagal himself was above suspicion of foul play, but Marcos did not have to make personal accusations, for low-level crime and corruption were part of every Filipino's experience. Coupled to it was his own vibrant campaign style. Singing duets with his wife Imelda (Miss Philippines of 1954), stumping the barrios with hard-hitting speeches, screening a biographical movie titled For Every Tear a Victory, Marcos ran away with the race. The 8,000,000 Filipinos who went to the polls gave him a towering mandate to eradicate the islands' ills...
...full 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...