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...calls her "Julie." He is as slim and debonair as she is shy and plump. At 52, he has long since overcome the handicap of being German by birth, is one of the busiest men in the kingdom, sits as an active member of the boards of Royal Fokker Aircraft, Royal Netherlands steelworks and KLM (in the interest of fairness, he serves only on the board of companies that have no Dutch competitors). Not only is he his nation's most effective representative abroad, but he also provides the authority and humor the Queen lacks. In the case...
...companies with large holdings in copra, rubber, tin, banking and real estate. Currently Loke has a particularly exciting flock under observation. As a public service, he volunteered four years ago to become unpaid chairman of Malayan Airways Ltd. To revive the rundown line, Loke ordered a fleet of Fokker F-27s to replace decrepit DC-3s and leased a BOAC Comet. This week, in cooperation with Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific Airways and Thai International, Malayan will begin to offer 58 weekly flights between major Southeast Asian cities. Unlike Loke's other winged friends, Malayan has proved...
Thirty-one years ago, when California's Richfield Oil Co. collapsed from reckless overexpansion and feckless management, giants scrambled for the pieces. Among the contenders was the late Harry Ford Sinclair, who hustled in from the east in his company Fokker to announce: "Gentlemen, I am in California and I am in to stay...
...Monday President. Fokker is run by a troika of joint managing directors: Frits Diepen, 47 (sales and service); Hein During, 58 (finance and administration); Egbert van Emden, 47 (production and development). "Every Monday morning," says Diepen, "we sit down together and are the president." But having three pilots has not stunted Fokker's growth. Its sales have been steadily rising despite The Netherlands' severe labor shortage, are now running at an estimated $125 million a year...
Currently, Fokker has a bulging backlog, including orders to build under license from Lockheed 350 F-104 Starfighters for the Dutch and West German air forces. The company is also developing a vertical-takeoff supersonic bomber, in conjunction with Republic Aviation, which two years ago acquired one-third of Fokker's stock. But Fokker's chief hope for the future lies in building a jet successor to the F27. Already in wind-tunnel tests are models of the short-haul twin-jet F-28, which would cruise at 500 m.p.h. and carry 44 to 60 passengers. To appeal...