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...interested in teaching, weary from his long winter, remote from Tanglewood's earnest youthfulness. When Leinsdorf was appointed to succeed Munch last fall, Tanglewood's friends took heart: the 50-year-old Vienna-born conductor seemed just the man. "He has a festival spirit," said Bass Clarinetist Rosario Mazzeo, the B.S.O.'s personnel manager. "He has the most extraordinary set of qualities - his time is laid out by an IBM com puter, but he's available to everybody. He could manage General Motors...
...started a year ago, when a group of San Diego flyers were on their way back from a vacation in Baja California, the long, arid Mexican peninsula that runs 800 miles south of the California border. A sudden dust storm forced their light plane down at El Rosario, a poverty-stricken fishing village of 600 people near the Pacific Coast. The Mexicans gave the stranded flyers shelter-which was all they had to give. The grateful Americans returned a few weeks later with food, clothing and toys. Dr. Dale Hoyt took his medical bag along. Hearing that there...
...people became a regular thing. Other doctors offered to help; so did nurses. Pharmacists donated drugs, and a doctor's widow volunteered her husband's instruments and examining-room equipment. Today, there are 45 members of San Diego's Flying Samaritans, as they call themselves. El Rosario's villagers call them "flying angels." Donating their time, talents and money (aviation fuel costs as much as $60 a trip per plane), they fly down to the village every two weeks, spend a day and a half treating the sick and performing needed operations. They get great satisfaction...
More than Money. One good company led to another. As they grew, the brothers persuaded U.S. capital to join them on a minority basis. "Even if we had the necessary capital ourselves," says Del Rosario, "we would still look for partners like these. They have vast research facilities, technical services and marketing know...
After he gets his fertilizer plant, Del Rosario hopes to start a petrochemical industry. He explains: "It's not a case of pyramiding companies merely to make money. We're a new country and we 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...