Word: mindoro
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mindanao as the members of Manila's power elite discuss their endeavors. Polished ilustrados in dark Italian suits and handsome women in bright mestiza dresses nod politely to aging Carmen Soriano and her 39-year-old son José Maria, heirs of the Soriano fortune (Cebu copper mines, Samar iron, Mindoro cattle and dairy, Mindanao mahogany and San Miguel beer). American businessmen from Esso and Caltex, Hawaiian Dole and General Foods, are prominent in the Manila Polo Club; the Phil-Am Life Insurance Co., with its filigreed, high-pillared headquarters in downtown Manila, symbolizes U.S. and Filipino cooperation...
...Congo, a missionary can hand out excerpts from the Gospels printed on glossy paper in the Tshibula dialect and illustrated with grainy photographs of local scenes. In Valladolid, an illiterate Spaniard can hear a dramatic reading of Mark 5:21-43 played on a record. On the island of Mindoro, a Filipino farmer can scan a Bible in Tagalog...
...succeed Anderson, President Kennedy named Admiral David Lamar McDonald, 56, commander of U.S. Naval Forces in Europe. A member of the Annapolis class of '28, McDonald has served as an aircraft-carrier commander (Mindoro and Coral Sea), as director of air warfare in the office of the Chief of Naval Operations and as deputy assistant chief of staff at SHAPE headquarters in Europe. In July 1961, he took over from Admiral Anderson as commander of the Mediterranean Sixth Fleet, a job that McDonald saw as that of "a kind of roving ambassador of good will." Last month...
...month after emerging from Harvard (A.B. '42, cum laude), Kalem was in the Army. With the 24th Division in the Philippines, he won the Bronze Star under gunfire "for staying on the telephone for 17 hours when the Japs seemed to be about to stage a landing on Mindoro," giving him a dislike of phones ever since. After the Army, Kalem wrote a weekly stock-market letter, then joined the Christian Science Monitor as a book critic, where he caught TIME...