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...sent troops into Mexico and U.S. ships bombarded Veracruz. But now the Communist invasion of the Caribbean was a clear and present danger-to Mexicans as well as Americans. Mexico's President Adolfo Lopez Mateos got advance notification of Kennedy's speech while he was in Manila on his way back from an Asian tour. He put Mexico decisively on the U.S. side. When he returned home two days later, he told a cheering crowd in Mexico City's main plaza: "We are in the lines of democracy. We will fight for peace and liberty." A high...
...Bishop of Mbalmayo in Cameroun, who had spent all his money on transportation to Rome, and reached the Vatican hungry. There was Pittsburgh's Bishop John Wright, who many Roman Catholic laymen believe will be the next U.S. cardinal. There was a former fisherman (Rufino Cardinal Santos of Manila) and a former count (Ernesto Sena de Oliveira of Portugal). There was Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, Primate of Communist Poland, who raised a finger to his lips to hush those who were cheering him. There were, in all, 2,700 of them-the spiritual leaders of 500 million people...
...sugar refineries in Ecuador, Puerto Rico and Iran. American Factors is developing 1,400,000 acres for agriculture in Australia and is experimenting with raising pineapples in Honduras. Theo. H. Davies has burgeoning sugar and cement operations in the Philippines, and Alexander & Baldwin is reportedly dickering to buy a Manila stevedoring company...
...spit of land overlooking Manila Bay, a glistening, 205-ft. tower spewed steam one day last week-and the technicians who watched could hardly have been more excited if they had just launched a moon rocket. The tower is the heart of the first oil refinery in southeast Asia to be controlled and managed by Asians. Sprawled across 230 acres 22 miles south of Manila, the Filoil refinery will ultimately turn out 17,000 barrels of high-octane gasoline and other products daily. "This," said Filoil President Ramon V. del Rosario. "is a dream come true...
...Rosario's grandfather founded Manila's first 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...