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Touchy or not, the Justice Department demanded that McCloskey's firm -along with the Boston architects who designed the building and the engineering company that supervised construction-cough up the $4,900,000, plus interest. The three companies refused, and last week the Department sued them for the full amount, specifically accusing McCloskey's outfit of having made "numerous departures" from specifications and having "provided defective workmanship and deficient equipment and materials...
Diversification is a relatively new concept for Coke. In the 30 years that rough and ready Robert Woodruff, 73, ran the company, Coca-Cola preened itself as a giant with a single product, a onetime cough elixir dispensed globally in wasp-waisted 6½-oz. bottles. Complacency caught up with the giant a decade ago; other companies made inroads with bigger bottles, and Pepsi even pulled ahead in some areas. Woodruff, whose position as chairman of the finance committee is buttressed by the fact that he owns Coke stock worth $30 million, was finally persuaded that the corporate horizon should...
...stormy course ahead. He began to cough up frothy blood. Dr. Kvittingen and Dr. Arne Naess concluded that his blood had been so damaged and diluted that they had to replace it all by transfusion. They cut a hole in Roger's neck to pass a tube down his windpipe, and through this they extracted more vomit. The boy's kidneys were not working. He received a whole pharmacopoeia of drugs. He had to be fed intravenously for a week...
Roasted Mac. Lord Fortnum of Alamein soon begins to fear that he is turning into a working-class flat in Paddington. Sure enough, he does. His new name is 29 Scum Terrace, W.2. A doctor examines him from the inside. Putting a stethoscope on a table, he says, "Cough." No. 29 Scum Terrace coughs, and a knob falls off a bureau drawer...
...that it is not clear whether he is suffering from the onset of amour or the opening of Aqueduct. As for Susan Strasberg, daughter of Actors Studio Artistic Director Lee Strasberg, it is surely a father's duty to tell her. As the phthisical Marguerite Gautier, only a cough distinguishes her from the Chatty Cathy doll...