Word: elixir
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DONIZETTI: L'ELISIR D'AMORE (2 LPs; Angel). The Elixir of Love is an 1832 comic opera that is a delightful collection of bouncy silliness couched in florid melody. Mirella Freni and Nicolai Gedda reproduce their entrancing Metropolitan Opera performances of two seasons ago, and they are complemented by the astonishing bass of Renato Capecchi, who combines unbelievable agility with mahogany-like richness in the role of a quack selling a love potion...
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...
...learned to read when he decided there must be more to life than following a mule along the rows of a piney woods cotton farm. At seven, young Milner-dubbed "Dumas" by his family because he tagged after a hired hand by that name-signed up to sell an elixir called Rosebud Salve to neighboring farmers. In the 35 years since, Dumas Milner has never stopped selling, and last week he did his biggest buying and selling yet. Breaking off the biggest single chunk of his $60 million Southern empire, Milner swapped his thriving household-products business (Perma Starch, Mystic...
...union of opposites, as a completeness possible perhaps only in God. He comes moreover as a redeemer. One by one as through the veil of a sanctuary, he leads the junkies through a door marked TOILET. One by one he injects them with an elixir that washes away their wretchedness, that raises them from the living dead, that transports them to "existence on another plane...
...Hand at the Tie. As always, Khrushchev could switch with bewildering speed from bully to ham. "Communism is my elixir of life," he bragged. "All I want is to live long enough to see the Red flag flying all over the world." At one point, riding through the Alps by cable car, he burst into the Volga Boatmen's song, insisted that Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko join in. While his wife Nina stayed humbly to the rear, he flirted with his attractive blonde Minister of Culture, Ekaterina Furtseva, 50. They joined in frequent private giggles, and occasionally she straightened...