Word: cola
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Identify the country or countries which recently: a) sentenced a poet to two weeks in prison for penning "a mockery of the Holy Family and Jesus Christ"; b) promoted Pepsi-Cola in full-page newspaper ads; c) gave away choice seashore plots of land to Sophia Loren, Gene Kelly, Kirk Douglas, Doris Day and Frank Sinatra...
...pierced only by the golden spires of the city's 300 Buddhist temples is now saw-toothed with multistory apartment blocks, but there is still a housing shortage in the $250-$500-per-month rental range. Flashing signs proclaim the virtues of Honda cycles, Philips TV sets, Coca-Cola and the Suzie Wong nightclub. For the gourmet, the Two Vikings offers Russian caviar in avocado pears for $5. Any jewelry store on Oriental Avenue has star rubies for the asking-plus $3,250. And instant antique Buddha heads are everywhere available to the unwary tourist, the corrosion of centuries...
...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...
...comfortably as an old shoe. When he got word last June of his promotion to a job that paid him $557,083 in 1965, he celebrated with Fred Donner and ex-President John Gordon by going to the New York World's Fair and taking the Pepsi-Cola ride...
...Coca-Cola's president, J. Paul Austin, 51, becomes chief executive officer, a title he takes over from Board Chairman Lee Talley. Austin demonstrates the growing value of foreign experience to American corporations, for he was Coca-Cola's export chief to sub-Saharan Africa for four years. As president since 1962, he has pushed some of the measures that diversified and brightened up a company that was tending to complacency. He decided to introduce the "lift-top" cap on Coke bottles and cans, helped move the company into coffee roasting...