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...still since World War II. Picked as president of Riken Sensitized Paper Co. when the U.S. broke up the Riken cartel after the war, Ichimura made it Japan's biggest photocopying-machine producer. He rapidly moved into manufacturing cameras and watches, set up a lingerie factory, won a Coca-Cola franchise, and last month opened a ten-story ladies' apparel store on Tokyo's Ginza. Ichimura attributes his unusual career to an equally unusual source: "a Great Sulk" that began when, at 15, he was refused money to attend an acrobatic show-and ended only when...
...task force working on the cover story in France was mobilized by Paris Bureau Chief Curtis Prendergast ("It was a week of sweat, sandwiches and Coca-Cola"), who handled the broad assessment of the situation himself, while assigning Correspondents Judson Gooding to report on the French political temper, Jeremy Main on the effects in NATO, James Wilde on the French business reaction, Godfrey Blunden on an analysis of the Soviet view. Their files, along with reports from TIME bureaus in Washington, Bonn, London and Rome, poured into New York, where Writer Robert McLaughlin, with the aid of Researcher Vera Kovarsky...
Among industrialists, such company chairmen as Frederic Donner (General Motors), Roger Blough (U.S. Steel), Joseph Block (Inland Steel), Carter Burgess (American Machine & Foundry), Charles Percy (Bell & Howell), such presidents as Edgar Kaiser (Kaiser Industries), J. Paul Austin (Coca-Cola), Thomas Jones (Northrop...
Berlitz & Button-Downs. Some U.S. businessmen, of course, have been looking abroad for quite some time: Coca-Cola, Caterpillar Tractor, National Cash Register and Colgate-Palmolive get 40% or more of their sales abroad, and their trademarks are as recognizable abroad as at home. The armies of American executives who became global commuters in 1962 helped to increase the volume of international air travel by 20%. From Scotland to Singapore, the button-down collar was as familiar a symbol of the footloose businessman as the carpetbag in the Reconstruction South. To welcome the new invaders, the Banco di Roma issued...
...your Coca-Cola in a hurry. Negotiations yesterday to settle the Coke bottlers strike came to a complete stalemate, and within a matter of days the beverage will be unavailable in Cambridge except in syrup form...