Word: drink
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...million-a-year company to the top job in a less than $200 million-a-year corporation is a step that Mahoney considers a challenge. He claims no fear of Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola, Canada Dry's two higher-ranked competitors in the soft-drink field. Says he: "I'm used to competition from giants-like Procter & Gamble and Lever...
...actually put into effect by the 13 countries (the Boycott Office has no enforcement powers of its own), the repercussions could be widespread. Coca-Cola, the most popular soft drink among teetotaling Arabs, has 29 bottling plants, 139,000 dealers and a $50 million investment in the Arab world. Egypt immediately prepared to shift nine bottling plants from Coke to something called "Nasr (for victory) Cola." When Iraqui-born Mohammed Mahdi, head of the Manhattan-based American-Arab Action Committee, got word of the boycott in Beirut, he ceremoniously emptied his Coke into a carton...
...inski) who works as an inspector for a chain of grocery stores and looks like a small grey pig wearing spectacles. Humiliated by his appearance, he assumes a mask of in difference that puts off the people he works with and drives his wife (Ann Todd) to drink. Inevitably, the morbid love-hate of women that is hidden in the inspector's heart bursts out in an ambiguous compulsion to punish and to prowl...
Letter of the Law. How Carry Nation conceived her passion against drink is a matter for more sobersided. chroniclers than Taylor. Some ascribe it to her grandfather's habit, back on the Kentucky homestead, of swilling brandy before the cock crowed; others to the fact that Carry's first husband, Dr. Charles Gloyd, was a professional drunk who reeled down the aisle to marry her and, in the few years left before they embalmed him, never sobered...
Alcoholism, moreover, is no more an acute problem in Scandinavia than in other countries; it is just that the people of the North drink irregularly and immoderately. Similarly, Connery feels that the Scandinavians' high suicide rate is misinterpreted. According to Connery, "the heart of the matter is that the more progress, the more suicides." That is not the whole heart, however (TIME ESSAY, Nov. 25). The U.S., more urbanized and advanced technologically, has a suicide rate only half that of Finland, Denmark and Sweden...