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...office of Minoru Yamasaki & Asso ciates, which now grosses $1,000,000 a year, is something else again. Since the Port Authority commission, his staff has grown to 70 associates, engineers, designers, modelmakers and secretaries, who include a Burmese, a Thai, a Filipino, a Chinese, two Japanese, two Latvians and a Briton. Yamasaki knows everyone by his first name, no matter how green or young the employee may be; and he insists on being called Yama in return. The office may be a madhouse, but no detail is ever too minor for Yamasaki's careful attention, whether...
...refinery, a cement plant and a glass company-and pockets handsome profits for its services. In all, Del Rosario and his three brothers run industries worth $50 million. With careers based on ability and integrity, rather than pull and inherited millions, they personify a brave new band of Filipino industrialists...
...Western-style undertaking parlor. Little interested in burying as a career, Del Rosario joined IBM-Philippines after college, eventually became the IBM subsidiary's vice president and general manager. By 1951 he had decided that business machines "did not mean too much in improving the lot of the Filipino masses." He left IBM. became executive vice president of Philippine-American Life Insurance Co. In 1953, after the Del Rosario brothers decided to operate on their own, they got a franchise to distribute International Harvester refrigerators. Cracks Ramon: "All we knew about refrigerators was how to open the door...
...must rely on selfhelp. Today 72% of our population [27.5 million] are under 30 years of age. These young people are going abroad and getting educated. I'd like them to come back home and look at me and say, 'Why, he's only a Filipino like...
...Peace Corps Director R. Sargent Shriver, 46, roughed his way by helicopter and Jeep through a 25-day, 10,000-mile tour of the Philippines, Thailand, Malaya, Sarawak and North Borneo to see how his troops were faring. He found them hard at work-so hard that at one Filipino hamlet he got a message from four volunteers saying: "Sorry, but we are too busy to see you." At another village, a volunteer proudly showed Shriver a pungent compost pile he had collected to demonstrate the wonders of fertilizer to local farmers. "Just feel that heat, sir," enthused the volunteer...