Word: cola
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Walt's Wonders. Disney's realistic robots, in fact, stalk the fair. Pepsi-Cola has about 350 of them, doll-size, flanking a boat ride that children seem to like more than anything else. Scottish dolls climb steep plaid mountains, Iranian dolls fly on Persian carpets, and French dolls cancan. The dolls sing an original tune about the cohesion of the peoples of the world that might have been composed by Wendell Willkie...
...Rhineland Palatinate, where the Russians have taken over an old resort hotel. Chilean diplomats must work above the din of a five-and-dime store on the floor be low; the small, ugly British chancellery is smack in the middle of a cornfield, across the street from a Coca-Cola plant. New buildings, like the sprawling U.S. office complex known as the Pentabonn, have been cannily designed so that they can be converted to local use as hospitals, industries and schools should the capital ever move back to Berlin...
Died. Austen Herbert Groom-John son, 54, co-father of the singing commercial, a onetime NBC program idea man who teamed with Announcer Alan Kent in 1939 to write "Pepsi-Cola Hits the Spot," a jingle that jangled for 20 years until Pepsi decided to "be sociable"; of a heart attack; in New York...
...While Mr. Goldwater has been pleading for a prehistoric party platform, while Mr. Rockefeller has been playing partisan politics, while Mr. Nixon has been pushing Pepsi-Cola, and while Mr. Scranton has been patiently standing pat in Pennsylvania, Lodge has been busy doing the job that must be done. He has been practicing Americanism in Saigon while others have been content merely to preach it in the suburbs...
...COCA-COLA CO.'s expansion plans have recently put it into the orange-juice, diet-pop and instant-tea business. Last week Coke announced a new addition that fits in with what President J. Paul Austin calls its new "total refreshment" concept. It acquired Houston's Duncan Foods Co., purveyors of coffee under a number of brand names (Fleetwood, Butter-Nut, Admiration). Austin, 49, who joined Coca-Cola's legal department in 1949 and was named president two years ago, sees the merger as another step toward Coke's first $1 billion year (1963 sales...