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...time we drank nothing stronger than Inca Kola. A piss-yellow soft drink with the taste of bubble gum, Inca Kola manages to more than hold its own against the foreign invader, Coke. In Peru soft drinks are chugged rapidly at a gulp. For this style of drinking Coca Cola has too much gas, something which the company's South American executives either don't know or are unwilling to change...
...handful of corporations contributed heavily. Coca-Cola and its bottling affiliates gave more than $164,000, Pepsi more than $91,000, and the Can Manufacturer's Institute, a lobbying group, more than $186,000. (See table...
...there be any hope of sparking enough public outrage to spur the recalcitrant legislature into action. Contributors Against the Bottle Bill: Aluminum Association $70,000 American Iron & Steel Institute 63,499 Anheuser-Busch, Inc. 66,850 Can Manufacturer's Institute 186,401 Canada Dry Bottling Co. 37,000 Coca-Cola and bottling cos. 164,290 Adolf Coors Co. 27,270 Glass Containers Corp. 62,000 Owens Illinois, Co. 84,000 Pepsi Cola & distributors 91,261 Joseph Schlitz Brewing Co. 58,030 Seven Up Co. 27,255 Miller Brewing Co. 51,240 Pabst Brewing Co. 24,000 1976 Referendum Campaign...
...about is the Secretary of State position. The names suggested most often as successors to Henry Kissinger: New York Lawyer Cyrus Vance, 59, a well-regarded former Deputy Secretary of Defense with strong roots in the Eastern foreign policy establishment; J. Paul Austin, 61, chairman of Atlanta-based Coca-Cola Co., whose executive skills impressed Carter when the President-elect was Georgia's Governor; and Maine's Senator Edmund Muskie, 62. Former Under Secretary of State George Ball, 66, is another oft-mentioned possibility, but he has run into strong Jewish opposition for suggesting an imposed Middle East...
...example, opponents of the bottle bill spent a total of $1.2 million this fall. Of that, Coca-Cola contributed $140,000, Pepsi Cola $100,000, and Anheuser-Busch, Joseph Schlitz and Miller breweries all gave more than $50,000 each. Of the $585,000 spent to defeat the public power authority proposal, Boston Edison contributed $179,000 and Massachusetts Electric gave...