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John Paul Austin. Rowed on the U.S. Olympic crew in 1936. Graduated from Harvard Law. Decorated as a World War II Navy lieutenant commander. Caught the eye of legendary Coca-Cola Chairman Bob Woodruff, who recruited and groomed him. Became chief in 1966. Earns in the high six figures. Is a buddy of fellow Georgian Jimmy Carter. Taught himself passable Japanese. Works in an Atlanta eyrie among Oriental antiques and photos of his handsome wife. Spends more than half his time traveling, largely to the 135 countries where Coke does business. Has a rather radical idea: the whole world...
...coast of Portugal and shadowed it toward Oporto, where it was expected to unload its cargo of whale products. Their probable destination: Japan. But when Sierra balked at entering the harbor, the leader of the antiwhaling expedition, Paul Watson, 28, of Vancouver, put Shepherd's captain and 14 crew members ashore, then headed back out to sea with two other crewmen...
Four and a half hours later, as it steamed north to England, Shepherd was intercepted by a Portuguese destroyer and ordered back to Oporto. There Watson found that one of his crew, Richard Morrison, 27, of Boston, had been bashed on the head in a waterfront scuffle with Sierra crewmen and was hospitalized with a severe concussion. The Sierra sailors, many of them South Africans, were detained, but at week's end most had been discharged, and any legal action about the skirmishing on land or sea was still...
NEVERTHELESS, Sellars and his technical crew have done a magnificent job of capturing this atmosphere. In Lulu, Sellars has found an appropriate vehicle for his operatic style of staging. Here he can indulge his predilection for larger-than-life dramatics...
...soundstage, but from the first moment he, his two-and-a-half foot dread locks and his dozen-or-so band members walk on stage, 15-20 thousand people focus on him. The concert is billed as a festival of unity, and at this first moment Marley and his crew seem to be successful. All eyes see a man who is both a genius and so stoned he seems about ready to fall over. He sings "Rastaman Vibration." The audience, which was seated until Marley walked on stage, is now on its feet, many are dancing, and others jumping over...