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...reckoned without the natives. Nine months were spent getting approvals from assorted local councils. Then in May, Fox carpenters set to work making the village even quainter than it was. TV aerials sprouting from gabled roofs were dismantled and a "piped in" system installed. Coca-Cola signs were removed, and because Puddleby-on-the-Marsh is a port, the stream meandering through town was dammed to create an inland...
...Next to Coca-Cola, probably the most notable U.S. presence in the Middle East is a Lebanese university founded by an American Presbyterian minister. Last week, on a hilltop overlooking the Mediterranean, the American University of Beirut began its centennial year by inaugurating Samuel Kirkwood, a former Harvard medical professor and public health commissioner of Massachusetts, as its new president. Later, Harvard's President Nathan Pusey and President Emeritus James Conant will join the year-long celebration as A.U.B. moves ahead on what Kirkwood sees as its main mission: "To provide a Western education without alienating the student from...
...this is enough to turn a discriminating wine fancier to stronger stuff. Henrion does not argue that fine wine should be handled like Préfontaines or that Préfontaines is a fine wine. "In my mind," he says, "this is something else, like Coca-Cola, like beer. It should be marketed that...
Coming out at Hong Kong, Koningsberger felt really depressed. He was back in a place with more freedom and more food, true, but also with beggars, pickpockets, litter and Coca-Cola hawkers. Behind the Bamboo Curtain he had left order and morality...
...then meets Stripper Ursula, a girl worth living for. Fleeing a corps of assassins, the lovers go to the Himalayas and back by junk, ricksha, sampan, elephant, airplane and balloon. They survive shipwreck in a floating coffin, and even beat off an attack by a fleet of heavily armed Coca-Cola trucks...