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...their new campuses. For Sister Mary Christopher Steele, assistant to the president of Detroit's Mercy College and now interning at Colorado College, that means at least one lengthy committee meeting a day plus in-depth interviews with upperclassmen fighting low mid-term grades. Associate Speech Professor Thomas Fernandez of Illinois' Monmouth College, on the run consulting with one administrator after another at Atlanta's Emory University, says: "I haven't encountered one single door closed...
From the passports, the government also took thumbprints and compared them with the prints from Che's military records in Argentina. They matched. Carrying the names of Adolfo Mena and Ramon Benitez Fernandez, the two passports show that Che -if it was he-came to Bolivia briefly in 1963, returned for a few days last October, and came back again last March. The government claims that he went directly to the farm, which had been bought by a Castro front man. Setting up headquarters in some caves on the ranch, the guerrillas laid in large supplies of food...
...Navy guerrilla in World War II (and later told about it in Rendezvous by Submarine), promptly set about rebuilding. By 1963, Grimm, Parsons and colleagues were able to sell their 50% interest for $6.6 million to a group of Filipino businessmen and investors headed by Jose B. Fernandez, now 43 and the company's chairman. U.S.-educated (Fordham, Harvard Business School) and a member of a wealthy Manila family, Fernandez tapped as president a young American: Donald I. Marshall, 37, son of one of Lusteveco's prewar managers and a Lusteveco staffer who joined the company afer graduating...
Missionary Zeal. Under Fernandez and Marshall, Lusteveco has barged ahead with a sort of missionary zeal. Sales have almost doubled since 1963, but the company is chary with dividends. It plows nearly all its earnings back into expansion. "Until we are sure we can meet the needs of the country," explains Fernandez, "we will continue to give that first priority and dividends second...
...have discovered to their chagrin. Lusteveco tugs and barges helped break the Saigon shipping bottleneck, and the company is bidding for similar work at Thailand's choked port of Bangkok. Still, happy as he is to have the U.S. military business (which now accounts for 12% of sales), Fernandez finds that he is hard-pressed to "accommodate that Viet Nam effort," looks for the day when he can "bring back a lot of the equipment and put it to work" at home...