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...Barton Beers, revealed that suds fans in the West and Midwest have been shaken by a rumor that the brand is contaminated with urine. Barton's managers thought they had stopped up the source of the malicious tale last month, when they settled a suit against a Reno-based distributor of Miller and Heineken whose employees were charged with spreading the story. But the rumor kept foaming up, which prompted Barton last week to launch a campaign to reassure customers in its 25-state sales region that no such contamination has ever been found...
DIED. Joseph E. Levine, 81, flamboyant movie mogul (The Graduate, The Producers, Carnal Knowledge); in Greenwich, Conn. Levine got his start in the 1950s by distributing films, later financing Federico Fellini's 8 1/2. Levine was involved as producer, distributor or backer in 500 films...
...words and draw graphs are now also capable of bringing a little fun and adventure to the corporate routine -- either after hours or on the sly during the workday. Of the 15 million personal-computer games sold in the U.S. last year, according to Ingram Software, a leading game distributor, nearly 40% were designed for the most popular business machines: the IBM PC, the Apple Macintosh and such IBM- compatible brands as Compaq, Epson, Leading Edge and Tandy. In 1985, by contrast, only about 15% of the games sold would run on business computers. When 750 U.S. executives were polled...
Copies of The Street are given free to homelesspersons who can hawk them on the streets and keepthe money. Additionally, free magazines aredistributed to area colleges and homelessshelters. Most of remaining copies are deliveredby hand to local businesses for sale, while othersare distributed by a commercial distributor...
...Allan Hendrickse, one of Botha's two nonwhite Cabinet ministers, led a group of 30 | protesters to whites-only King's Beach for a chilly ten-minute "splashabout" in defiance of the law. Proclaimed Hendrickse: "This is God's beach!" In the Transvaal, Ster-Kinekor, South Africa's main distributor of foreign films, said it would stop supplying U.S. productions from Warner Bros. and Columbia Pictures unless whites-only admissions policies were dropped. Ster-Kinekor said it was under pressure from the two U.S. filmmakers...