Word: colas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cosmetics and soft drinks have few things in common except that leading companies in both fields have long been headed by a couple of tough, almost legendary characters: Charles H. Revson, 59, chairman of Revlon, and Robert W. Woodruff, 76, finance-committee chairman and a major stockholder at Coca-Cola Co. They are not exactly fading away just yet, but last week both firms named two big men to top jobs...
...system suddenly gone berserk. For those driven out by the din, the club has other diversions: a reading room and TV room (one color set), a movie theater (avantgarde shorts). Street-vendor carts push Nathan's Famous hot dogs (50?), and the bar serves liberal portions of Pepsi-Cola, but nothing stronger than beer and wine is served...
...weeks ago, B'nai B'rith's Manhattan-based Anti-Defamation League charged that the Coca-Cola Co., in denying a franchise to a Tel Aviv bottler, was kowtowing to the Arab nations' boycott against foreign firms that do business with Israel. After all, noted the league, Coke has plants in 18 Arab states that might be closed down if the Tel Aviv franchise were granted...
...accusation brought an acid reply from Coca-Cola Export Corp. Chairman James A. Farley, Franklin Roosevelt's old campaign manager. The company, snapped Farley, was not about to honor "any boycott." Fact was, he continued, that the Israeli bottler in question, the Tempo Beverage Co., was an undesirable business associate; in 1963, Coke had to go to court to make Tempo stop "infringement of the Coca-Cola trademark and bottle design." And Tempo, inevitably, was the disgruntled bottler that had complained to the Anti-Defamation League in the first place. Muttered a league spokesman: "I can't understand...
...kept bubbling. Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital stopped buying Coke for its cafeteria. Nathan's Famous Hot Dog emporium on Coney Island and a New York theater chain threatened to do the same. The New York City Human Rights Commission even called for an investigation of Coca-Cola. At that point, Coca-Cola decided it had had enough pop shots. Farley announced that the company was awarding an Israeli franchise to Manhattan Banker Abraham Feinberg, who is also president of the Israel Development Corp., which promotes Bonds for Israel. The decision, crowed the Anti-Defamation League, "will show...