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...centennial birthday party is billed as a "family affair," but it promises to be the biggest corporate shindig that Atlanta, and probably all of the U.S., has ever seen. Some 14,000 Coca-Cola employees from around the world are flying into the Georgia capital with their families this week, all expenses paid, to join about 10,000 local colleagues in the fun. During four days of festivities, they will toast one another at a mammoth black-tie dinner, join coworkers on six continents in singing Happy Birthday via satellite and enjoy the hoopla of a two-hour parade through...
...scale of whoop-de-do, which will cost somewhere between $10 million and $20 million, is fitting for the Coca-Cola Co. (1985 sales: $7.9 billion) as it turns 100. A century ago, according to corporate lore, John Styth Pemberton, 55, a surgeon and analytical chemist, whomped up the first batch of Coke's magic elixir in his Atlanta backyard, using a three-legged brass kettle and an oar. Now, almost exactly a year after the seemingly disastrous flip- flop decision to change the formula of the world's best-selling soft drink, Coca-Cola has emerged bigger, wealthier...
Before Wednesday's event, nearly 75 protesters,most of whom were members of the Harvard studentgroup called the Committee on Central America(COCA), marched in a circle outside Science CenterD. The protesters shouted "U.S.A., C.I.A. out ofNicaragua," and distributed a flyer describingalleged contra atrocities...
...COCA voted to denounce the position oftrying to prevent Rosales from speaking at theevent, which will be held at 8 pm. Andre Weltman'86, a member of a Trotskyist group, dissentedfrom the decision, saying, "God damn it, we shouldkeep these butchers on the run. These same guysare the guys who, when they catch you, want torape you or [sexually mutilate...
Other students suggested moderation, suggestingthat COCA allow intellectualism to prevail overemotionalism. "I have a sense of moral andintellectual superiority over this guy and I don'tsee how [being emotional] about this issue couldhelp us," said Jason Ravitz...