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...Manila's block-long Soriano Building, the employees have a saying: "Pick up any piece of paper with writing on it from any drawer or table, and you'll find Soriano's initials on it." Don Andres Soriano not only leaves his mark on a mountain of paper work, but keeps a thumb on just about everything that moves in the Philippines. He is the islands' best-known businessman, biggest philanthropist, runs an industrial empire which provides the livelihood for 80,000 Filipino families. His enterprises' taxes (close to $30 million a year) make...
...stock option plan to hold on to its top executives. Last year, before the company adopted its plan, Republic lost three top men to other companies which offered fat extra-salary benefits; even President Charles M. White had been approached. But Lawyer Arthur Dean of Manhattan's top-drawer firm of Sullivan & Cromwell probed right to the heart of the matter. Unless companies can reward their executives by such devices as stock options, said Dean, they will slip away in increasing numbers to enter business for themselves. In many a U.S. community, hardworking dealers who own their own businesses...
...ordinary times, the case would have rated a quiet police investigation, some chatter at cocktail parties, perhaps a feature article in the more lurid Sunday supplements. But when two middle-drawer British foreign-service men disappeared during a trip to the continent last month, the usually stolid British Foreign Office acted in a way the British call "hysterical" if displayed by Americans. Police on two continents, including Scotland Yard, launched a gigantic man hunt for Donald Duart MacLean and Guy Francis de Moncy Burgess. Everyone recalled the case of Atom Spy Klaus Fuchs and the flight of Britain...
...Goldbergs. Morse recast his show "for the eye instead of the ear," and began to think in terms of visible characters. The result was so successful that Morse now considers the TV Family (which has a different cast, headed by Bert Lytell, and a different storyline) much more top-drawer than the radio Barbours. Says Morse: "Father Barbour has become much more human than the stuffed-shirt character I created for radio; Mother Barbour is a more brilliant, society-type woman." Judging by their success to date, there seemed no reason to doubt that the TV Barbours would go right...
...typewriter and read it over. "Dear draft board," it said, "please send me my deferment per President Truman's order of April first." It was a good letter, thought Vag, tight and to the point. He found an envelope under a pile of Coop bills in the top drawer of his desk, slipped in the letter, and took a stamp from the top of his roommate's bureau. Then he went out the door of the entry, into the tentative brightness of the sun, and across the quad to the mailbox. He stood for a minute reading the little card...