Word: colas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Much is genuinely funny in Perera's saga of a guilt-ridden innocent abroad. Bendana has a mad. malapropriate sister, who feels "like a fish in Coca-Cola" instead of a fish out of water. He finds himself standing on the road before a brothel "tallying figures in his head, wondering uneasily if they would take a traveler's check." There are lapses, of course. Perera slumps toward collegiate humor or into yuks too obviously derived from the new school of American-Jewish humor. His story line suffers the common affliction of the picaresque novel, midsection...
...Communist troops moved through Thanh My hurling various sorts of explosives-grenades, satchel charges and homemade devices called "Chicom grenades," which are fashioned from Coca-Cola cans filled with plastique or TNT, rocks and nails. Explosives dumped into one large bunker killed 24 persons. "When the V.C. came, they shot every house," says Hoan Than Tick, 56, a resident who escaped. "When people ran, they shot them too. Then they threw grenades into the bunkers...
Representatives to the convention-who came from 22 colleges across the country-decided not to advocate at this time any further boycotts similar to the Coca-Cola and Phillip Morris boycotts which the NCEA announced last week. Instead, the committee hopes to negotiate with corporations and to convince them that "it will be profitable for them to endorse peace...
...response to the boycott, George Weissman, president of Phillip Morris, agreed on Friday that he personally would lend his efforts to "establish a positive dialogue among business, youth, and the public to bring about an immediate cessation to the war in Southeast Asia." The Coca Cola company did not agree to negotiate with the NCEA, and its products are still being boycotted...
...obelisk on which his name is inscribed. Communists once demanded that the stone, marking the former Foro Mussolini, be removed or rechiseled. The government ruled that Mussolini had become just one more dictator in the city's history, along with Caesar, Caracalla or the 14th century Cola di Rienzi. Like them, he was entitled to a place in the ruins...