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Brave New Band. Del Rosario himself is a sort of walking five-year plan. In addition to running Filoil Refinery Corp., he is president of Filoil Marketing, which started with one service station in 1960, now has 200. Del Rosario is president of International Electric Appliance Co.. Inc., organized two months ago to assemble General Electric appliances. He is chairman of Del Rosario Brothers Industries, which has a majority interest in the appliance company and in a pioneering credit company (of which he is president). He is also president of Philippine Investment-Management Consultants, Inc.. which...
...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...
Characteristically, when the $17.5 million refinery was tested last week, lean, amiable Del Rosario, 44, was halfway across the world in Manhattan, lining up investors for a chemical fertilizer plant to be built near the refinery. The refinery should save enough foreign exchange for oil imports to pay for itself in four years. The fertilizer plant will supply 60,000 tons of urea that now have to be bought abroad...
...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...
...Guevara was born in the Argentine grain port of Rosario on June 14, 1928, the first of five children in a family of Spanish-Irish descent and some small inherited wealth. Father Guevara was determined to give his premature and puny son a hardy upbringing, and sunned the sickly infant on a balcony wrapped only in a diaper despite the 45° chill of midwinter. Che was plunged into bathtubs of cold water and doused under icy showers. He developed a persistent cough and later serious allergic asthma...