Word: cola
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pepsi Merger? After his victory, Perlstein announced that he will take up again a major project interrupted by the proxy fight: merger talks with the Pepsi-Cola Co. Perlstein started the merger talks while the proxy fight was brewing, but Pepsi President Alfred Steele broke off the talks when he saw that the fight was inevitable. Steele, who took over Pepsi when it was floundering and sent sales and profits soaring, apparently felt he could do the same for Pabst; Pabst also stood to gain by Pepsi's crack management and salesmanship...
...reduced all the poetry of degradation to the customary commercial serving of fresh ham and pot likkah. And he replaced the emotional ingredients of The Hamlet's grand, grotesque romance-half arsenic, half cantharide-with a conventional love story that is at least as sweet as Coca-Cola...
...home Andy began to feel ill, took a cola drink and milk to ease the pain. They only made it worse. He called his family physician, who knew Andy's occupation. A barium X ray confirmed his diagnosis: Andy had punched a hole through his esophagus (gullet), narrowly missed his heart. His drinks were spilling through the hole into his chest cavity. The doctor called Surgeon Philip Thorek, an amateur movie fan who is careful to take a camera crew with him on unusual cases...
...Angeles how he had routed out his cameramen at 1 a.m. when he got the call to operate on Andy. The resulting films showed the X ray and progress of the operation. Under general anesthesia he cut out Andy's fifth rib, pumped out the milk and cola, worked around the heart to get at the esophagus. Then he sewed up the hole. Andy's recovery was complicated by infection in the chest cavity, but antibiotics took care of that...
Symbols of Liberty. Imperceptibly, the glad grew smaller. On Greek Independence Day, Teacher Durrell found his blackboard shrouded in crape with the message: WE DEMAND OUR FREEDOM ! Among the first symbols of liberty in modern Cyprus were Coca-Cola bottles, with which Author Durrell one day saw his girls pelt the police. During this "operatic phase" of the disturbances, Durrell took the post of press adviser to the governor. He still hoped that neither British hotheads ("Squeeeze the Cyps") nor Cypriot hotheads ("The British must go") would prevail. In retrospect, he believes that had Britain granted the Cypriots the right...