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...being, he gracefully accepted a statement by President Roy W. Moore Jr. that Canada Dry's next quarterly earnings would drop because of a $3,000,000 outlay to promote a grapefruit drink named Wink. (President Moore, sipping Wink while speaking, at one point let out an inadvertent burp and apologized: "It wasn't the Wink; it was me.") After the meeting, Simon said: "Canada Dry is doing exactly what it should be doing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Management: New Show at ABC | 7/30/1965 | See Source »

...divide the Federation's Chinese and Malays. Last week, after bellying through the bush near Sarawak's provincial capital of Kuching, a band of some 40 Indonesians in berets and tennis shoes surprised a police outpost, chopped down six Malaysian cops with a burst from a Czech burp gun. Led by a pair of Malaysian exiles, both Chinese Communists, the guerrillas went searching for Chinese peasants loyal to the government of Tunku Abdul Rahman. They killed three in one family, stabbed three men near a bridge on the road to Kuching, and reportedly hanged a Chinese patriarch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Malaysia: Sukarno Steps Up the War | 7/9/1965 | See Source »

Pimp? He tried again: "You considered yourself an undercover man, or pimp?" (Objection sustained.) "You had a burp gun in your car, didn't you?" (Objection sustained.) "Are you a member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People?" (Objection sustained.) Then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alabama: The Trial | 5/14/1965 | See Source »

...counterpoint to those desperate words of welcome, the rattle and burp of rebel gunfire echoed from the smoking city center barely a mile up the road. Down the street went the marines, most of them green, all of them scared, grimly clutching M14 rifles, M60 machine guns and 3.5-in. bazookas. Now the firing grew in intensity, and rebel bullets whined past the U.S. troops. Near the U.S. embassy, two marines caught the full blast from a hidden machine-gun nest in an unfinished building a short distance away. Nine more were wounded before bazooka men came up to blast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dominican Republic: The Coup That Became a War | 5/7/1965 | See Source »

Meanwhile the U.S. embassy was gathering Americans and other foreigners at the Embajador Hotel for evacuation. More than 500 people were waiting at the hotel and on the grounds when a group of rebel teenagers, most of them kids from 16 to 18, suddenly appeared waving burp guns. They lined the men up against a wall as if to execute them, then fired their automatic weapons harmlessly into the air. "Those brats just seemed to delight in terrorizing us," said one U.S. housewife. Only the arrival of a rebel army colonel stopped the gunplay and permitted the removal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dominican Republic: The Coup That Became a War | 5/7/1965 | See Source »

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