Word: manila
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Only 35 miles from Manila, the Philippine barrio (village) of Santo Nino is a town out of the Middle Ages-without plumbing, electricity or medicine. One cause of Santo Nino's squalor is its isolation; for centuries its only access to the outside world has been a winding trail over which common folk move on foot, the more prosperous on donkey back. Last week, sweating under the tropical sun, 200 half-naked men and boys from Santo Nino were hacking out a broad, five-mile highway to take out the village's production of timber, copra and rice...
...hospitals across the nation, she faced the loss of her job and possible deportation. She had flunked the qualifying examination that would have enabled her to stay in the U.S. and complete her training. "I am humiliated. I will carry this with me when I go back to Manila," she said...
...intricate and flowing patterns in palace courtyards, in shops and streets and paddies, or bathing with modest nudity in roadside canals. Most famed are the tawny bare beauties of Bali and the tiny, remote girls of Solo in Indonesia. For those who wish to pursue the investigation more intimately, Manila has an infinitude of dance halls and brothels. Tokyo provides beautiful girls in endless, well-displayed quantity from the nude chorus line at Nichigeki Music Hall to brassy burlesque shows complete with U.S.-style striptease. Tokyo, like Paris, is the place for a gay night out. Like Paris...
...every corner, big dance halls, and at Typhoon Shelter, prostitutes perched on the deck of sampans call their wares to passing sailors along the quay. But Hong Kong night life is hardly wild in the old Shanghai tradition and barely compares with that of present-day Tokyo or Manila...
...reception given Eisenhower in Manila indicated strongly that our "best" friends in Southeast Asia are the Filipinos...