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...McCann-Erickson advertising agency. Davis collaborated on the 1971 Coca-Cola commercial, which as a single, I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing, sold over a million records. He and Dottie West wrote the current Coca-Cola hit, and he and McCann-Erickson Creative Director William Backer wrote the lyrics for the Miller beer single. There is some talk of dusting off Paint the World a Rainbow, the recent Coca-Cola radio jingle he produced, as a pop entry by the Spinners...
...with the crucial California primary fast approaching, the beleaguered presidential campaign of Hubert Humphrey was badly pressed for funds. Humphrey knew that if anyone could help him in a hurry, it would be John L. Loeb Sr., his old friend and staunch backer (though he is a nominal Republican), senior partner of Loeb, Rhoades & Co., one of Wall Street's most prestigious brokerage houses. Within a matter of days, the resourceful investment banker had come through handsomely. At Loeb's request, seven of his firm's employees each wrote two checks in the amount...
...Rogers announced that President Nixon had authorized the sale of F-5E supersonic jet fighters to Marxist Chile and four other South American countries. Earlier, the State Department had indicated American willingness to sell the prestigious F-4 Phantom jet fighter-bomber to Saudi Arabia, a heavy financial backer of the Palestinian liberation movement against Israel. The department also disclosed that negotiations were under way for the sale of other advanced armaments to another Arab country, Kuwait...
That supremacy has been in large measure ensured by the consistent support of the U.S. In recent years, the U.S. Senate has been a particularly strong backer of the Israeli cause-and last week was accused by one of its own members, William Fulbright, of being "subservient" to Israel...
...background in music," says Killion, "but we knew what we wanted: quality writing and photography." Killion and his partners−Russell Barnard, who is publisher of Harper's, and Spencer Oettinger, the former shoe manufacturer−needed first of all an editor and a backer. They recruited Peter McCabe, a writer for Rolling Stone, to run the magazine and coaxed Publisher John Cowles of the Minneapolis Star and Tribune Co. into putting his company behind the project...