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...Ayala Corporation introduced the first tramcar service in the Philippines. Generations later, the company pioneered ways for Filipinos to pay bills and transfer money via their cell phone. Along the way, some of Ayala’s top leaders trained at Harvard—including its current CEO, Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala II ’81, who last week became the first Filipino to be recognized with the Harvard Business School’s highest honor for its alumni. Zobel has focused on innovative ways to improve Ayala Corporation and the $22 million non-profit Ayala Foundation, whose...
...social upheaval. Scenarist Robert Bolt has condensed much of this story through a narrator, Yuri's Bolshevik brother (Alec Guinness). The device seems awkward at times, but the flashbacks spring vividly to life on their own. The couple's first wordless encounter takes place aboard a tramcar in Moscow, and the headlong rush of their interwoven destinies is a subtle, unifying symbol of Zhivago. Trains wail along outside the house where Lara and her mother's self-seeking lover (Rod Steiger) generate the first sparks of scandal. After the revolution, a train carries Yuri, his wife Tonya...
...only 37.* Argentina's depressed auto manufacturers, producing at scarcely 30% of capacity, are desperately trying to thin their ranks; but when Kaiser tried to do so, workers seized the plant and threatened to burn it along with management hostages trapped inside. Peru's Lima-Callao tramcar company, which recently pulled out of bankruptcy, is not permitted by the unions to fire anyone, although it has four workers for every real...
...called Communism "unscrupulous" and condemned its violent methods. He has firmly, even ruthlessly suppressed Communism inside India. But he objects more to Communist methods than to Communist ideas. Said he: the Indian Communists were "lunatics or utter idiots if they thought that throwing a bomb here or burning a tramcar there could influence millions of people." He admits a strong emotional attraction toward Communism and the Soviet Union. More in sorrow than in anger, he has spoken of the "excessive use of violence in normal times" in Russia, but he also holds that Soviet Russia's "success or failure...
...harder on his own Reds. Last week he summoned his countrymen to combat "Communist lawlessness." India's Reds, he said, were "lunatics or utter idiots" if they thought that "throwing a bomb here or burning a tramcar there could influence millions of people...