Word: cola
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...always been a way of life. Growing up in Old Town, Chicago's tough ethnic crucible, Ron learned the Protestant virtues from his sea-captain father, an immigrant from Denmark; he learned to cram pennies into jars and projects into leisure time. By driving his Royal Crown Cola truck long hours, sometimes from 7 in the morning to as late as 10 at night, Ron earns $17,700 a year in wages and commissions and has bought his family the $27,000, two-story house that they share with his father and stepmother on the city...
Computer technology is bewitched with superstition. For one thing, today's young cyberneticists tend to anthropomorphize their tools. Tom Allison, 25, a Coca-Cola executive in Atlanta, is convinced that his computer is feminine. "She keeps cutting me off at the most inopportune times," he complains. A programmer in Los Angeles will not feed blue cards into his computer-he feels she deserves pink. Seymour Greenfield, a research manager for the military DRC-44 computer program at Dynamics Research Corp. near Boston, complicates the matter further, " I hired everyone building the computer by the zodiac signs under which they...
...stands with a permanent lopsided slouch, his left shoulder 1 in. higher than his right. He peers out at the world through one clear contact lens and one that is blue-tinted; he is simply too lazy to replace the other half of either pair. He is a Pepsi-Cola addict, but insists that he has kicked the habit: he drinks only ten 16-oz. bottles a day now instead of 15. He likes to read about J. Paul Getty, because he is so rich, and his hero is Frank Sinatra, "because he doesn't give a damn about anything...
...offering two-hour concerts in front of neighborhood community centers. Now in its fourth year, the Jazzmobile features first-rate jazzmen (Dizzy Gillespie, Milt Jackson), sometimes attracts 3,000 listeners at a time. It is an independent offshoot of the Harlem Cultural Council, and private firms, such as Coca-Cola Bottling Co. and Chemical Bank New York Trust Co., pay most...
...Canada's Gaspé Peninsula. Almond uses his color camera as a landscape painter might, pausing now to frame a snow-banked brook and barnyard, now a pile of upturned boat hulls rotting in the winter sun. The country store, the local garage with the inevitable Coca-Cola sign and the railroad tracks piercing through the barren hills like a steel spine flash by in a blur of fast cuts. And always there is the distant, forlorn sound of cowbell and gull cry, wind and heaving...