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...Oval Office. PepsiCo Chairman Donald Kendall got the right to bottle and sell Pepsi in the Soviet Union in 1972, when his friend Richard Nixon was in the White House. After Jimmy Carter moved to Washington, his old Atlanta pal Coca-Cola Chairman J. Paul Austin captured the exclusive right to sell Coke to a billion Chinese. Rarely, though, has the Coke-Pepsi rivalry gone so far as in Thailand, where it has now led to two deaths...
...Texas, the Democratic-controlled state senate drafted a plan that would concede two of the three new seats to the G.O.P. but would also create a dragon-shaped 27th Congressional District around Austin that would be solidly Democratic. Republican Governor William Clements promptly vetoed it. Texas Republicans, meanwhile, cut a deal with black and Hispanic Democrats that would turn two mostly white Democratic seats in the Dallas area into a heavily black Democratic district and a largely white Republican district. Indeed, though all 17 black members of Congress have lost constituents since 1970, nearly all are expected to survive redistricting...
...Royals are high on lefty Keith Creel, a pitcher at Jacksonville (Southern) who should be up with the big club by the end of the year. Creel hails from Duncanville, Tx., and played college, ball at the U of Texas in Austin. His brother, Leland, plays first base for Lubbock Christian College, the host team for the NAIA World Series which begins June...
...Austin B. Olson San Diego...
...DIED. Austin Scott, 96, Harvard Law School professor who in his 50 years there-the longest teaching career in the university's history-trained many of the nation's best lawyers, judges and legal scholars, and whose 1939 text, Scott on Trusts, is a classic in the field; in Boston...