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...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 up 10% of the government's total tax revenue. His fortune is estimated as high as $30 million...
...long & hard before plunging into another such military venture as Korea, her expansionist activities in Asia are obviously far from over. Red China's leaders are still hailing the "victories" of the Vietnamese over the French in Indo-China. Red propaganda still shouts support of Malayan terrorists and Filipino Huks. "The Chinese revolution is far from complete," screamed No. 2 Red Liu Shao-chi, in a rousing speech to 40,000 in Peking this week. "China's Taiwan [Formosa] has not yet been liberated...
...Filipino cases are different, Dr. Majoska argued: all died in their sleep. Moreover, Dr. Majoska did not believe that the 25 findings of pancreatitis explained the deaths, because there were 18 of the 43 cases, similar in all other respects, without...
Died. Tomás Confesor, 60, Filipino statesman and anti-Japanese guerrilla leader; of a heart attack; in Manila. After working his way through the University of California and the University of Chicago, he returned to the Philippines, gave up a brief teaching career to enter politics, in 1937 was elected governor of Iloilo. When the Japanese came he rejected collaboration feelers, declared himself governor of all Panay, sent word to the invaders: "I will not surrender as long as I stand on my feet." When MacArthur returned, he was still standing...
Berg: Sonata, Op. 1 (Benjamin Tupas, pianist; Lyrichord, 1 side LP). This early work, composed a dozen years before Wozzeck, is full of powerful expressiveness without the contorted effects that came later. Well played by a young Filipino pianist. Recording: good...