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In his air-conditioned headquarters next to Manila's presidential palace, a portly aristocrat in an immaculate white suit caught up with the business at hand. With imperious dispatch, Don Andres Soriano, 64, decided on the gift boxes that his companies will use next Christmas, studied the experimental strains...
A tireless concern for detail, plus a flair for profitable experimentation, has made tough, touchy Andres Soriano one of the Philippines' top-ranking tycoons, with an estimated personal fortune of $80 million.
With a farsightedness rare among Philippine capitalists, he has shared some of the fruits of his prosperity with his 16,000 employees. As early as 1918, he set up a pension plan that paid retired employees 25% of their salary, and followed it with guaranteed sick leaves and medical benefits...
Hands off, in fact, has been the production policy from the outset. Both Jersey Standard and the producers have guaranteed the performers autonomy and artistic freedom; hence they have been able to line up the Metropolitan Opera's George London, Violinist Isaac Stern, Guitarist Andres Segovia and Cellist Pablo...
In most of his roles, De Paolis has only a few minutes to establish a character. But he does so with such skill (and without exaggerated theatrics) that even famous tenors and sopranos find themselves in danger of being upstaged in his presence. De Paolis seems able to play any...