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...Ferdinand von Zeppelin The Wright Brothers
Villegas' attack is directed almost as much against Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, a bitter political rival, as against the Japanese. Marcos sees Japan as a source of sorely needed investment capital, last year issued an administrative order that enabled the 17 Japanese businesses, which include such well-known trading firms as Mitsui & Co. and Sumitomo Shoji Kaisha Ltd., to operate in the Philippines. The Japanese obtained government licenses and moved in quietly; most of them discreetly left corporate name plates off their office doors, instead put up signs reading simply "Welcome, walk...
Widely planted under President Ferdinand Marcos' "Rice, Roads and Schoolhouses" program, improved IR8 has already helped make the Philippines a rice exporter for the first time in this century. In the paddies of India, Pakistan and Malaysia, farmers are sowing thousands of acres of IR8. Even the Indonesians have been persuaded to shuck their fears of divine indignation; last week they received 600 tons of harvested IR8 from the Philippines in the first international deal involving the new rice. The Filipinos have also been sending hundreds of tons of IR8 and IR5 seed to South Viet Nam. Much...
...love and knowledge of his business and an endless capacity for work. On a seven-day week, with only a few hours off for sleep, he started with 7,000 workers, and, after weeks spent clearing the rubble, began turning out the prototype bug designed before the war by Ferdinand Porsche. The product, he knew, was "a poor thing, cheap, ugly and inefficient." Its engine would expire after 10,000 miles, its brakes and springing were atrocious...
Isabella of Castile is best known to history as the lady who, with King Ferdinand, backed Columbus on his voyage that led to the discovery of the New World. But in her time, the Spanish Queen was equally renowned as a patroness of the arts. At her bidding, Juan de Flandes and Miguel Sithium painted 47 miniature panels between 1498 and 1504 portraying the lives of Christ and Mary for her private chapel. All but two were probably by Juan de Flandes, a Fleming whose sophisticated fusion of courtliness and naiveté, and languid, doll-like figures were much prized...