To Filipinos in happier days, the Government-owned Manila Hotel had been something—something more than a big, square, sturdy building, usually brimming with Americans and noisy with their doings. To Manilans it was the "Grand Hotel of the Orient" and they were proud of it as a symbol of Manila's progress. Its penthouse was the residence of General Douglas MacArthur and a floor or two below, in an apartment overlooking the harbor, lived Admiral Tommy Hart, commander of the U.S. Asiatic fleet.
Last week Manilans again looked proudly on the 33-year-old building. Its once immaculately white exterior was shell-scarred and...
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