Word: coca-cola
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Cocaine, which reaches the U.S. through the Colombian network, often does not originate in Colombia. Most coca shrubs grow in neighboring Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador, where the Indians of the Andes have chewed the leaves for more than 2,500 years. According to legend, the founder of the Inca dynasty, Manco Capac, brought coca to earth from his father, the sun. The Indians used it to dull their hunger, cold and weariness. (When Georgia Pharmacist John Styth Pemberton invented Coca-Cola, he included small amounts of cocaine to "cure your headache" and "relieve fatigue," but the drug was eliminated from...
Though Washington officials had cause for their enthusiasm, the personal triumph last week belonged to Teng. For 40 minutes, the diminutive Chinese leader sat perched on a blue silk sofa in Woodcock's living room as guests were served an appropriate, but unsettling, combination of Coca-Cola, Chinese orange soda pop, apple pie and egg rolls. Teng chain-smoked and drank local beer as he listened to Woodcock's plea for more living and working space for U.S. diplomats when the liaison office becomes a full-fledged embassy on March...
...Chinese delegation, save the waiters who sported white tops and used cardboard Coca-cola boxes instead of trays, wore the same sort of suit that Mao was dressed in, with various shades of dark gray. The women wore similar gray pants with short, colored, brocade tops. They posed an interesting contrast to the other women in the room--overseas Chinese and Americans. Some of the female guests wore brightly colored satin while other donned Chinese jade; none was in pants...
...couldn't have looked any happier. Deputy Liaison Chief Han Hsu beamed as he shook hands in the reception line while the proudest-looking man had to be Liaison Chief Chai. He looked especially pleased when someone pointed to one of the three buttons pinned to his suit. In Coca-Cola script it read "things go better with science...
...tourists visited the Middle Kingdom last year. So did thousands of capitalists dowsing for new markets and investments in this promising territory. Perhaps the two most startling pieces of symbolic revisionism: the Chinese are planning to construct a golf course on the outskirts of Peking, and have given Coca-Cola exclusive rights to sell in the People's Republic...