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Expo's main audience seems sure to be families. According to the local tabloid, the Province, Vancouver prostitutes are disappointed by the lack of swingers. 'SEXPO' BIG FLOP FOR GIRLS, headlined the paper. Shoppers are not lacking for other wares, however, from hot-weather Guayabera shirts at the Cuban exhibit to cold-weather Eskimo parkas and beautiful hand-knitted sweaters at the various Canadian exhibits. Because of a favorable exchange rate (the Canadian dollar is now worth 73 cents), prices are relatively cheap for Americans and even cheaper for foreigners equipped with superstrong currencies like...
...century ago, according to corporate lore, John Styth Pemberton, 55, a surgeon and analytical chemist, whomped up the first batch of Coke's magic elixir in his Atlanta backyard, using a three-legged brass kettle and an oar. Now, almost exactly a year after the seemingly disastrous flip- flop decision to change the formula of the world's best-selling soft drink, Coca-Cola has emerged bigger, wealthier and vastly more diversified than ever before. Reflecting that fact, Coca-Cola stock closed last week at 111 1/8, nearly 70% higher than a year ago. Exults Crawford Johnson, a Birmingham Coca...
...flip-flop made for a cool reception at the presidential Malacanang Palace. Habib twice met with Marcos. On the first visit, the President handed Habib alleged photographic evidence of ballot stealing by Aquino supporters. Afterward, Habib had no comment, but Marcos said the veteran troubleshooter had assured him that the U.S. "was not in any way telling us how to run our affairs." Habib was similarly silent after a 55-minute visit with Aquino. The meeting was apparently cordial but ended on a somber note as Aquino reiterated her position that a truce with Marcos was impossible. Said...
...those simple days. Now the news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and then abandoned for some new novelty. As the final step, pollsters tell us how the public reacted to it, which becomes the agreed version -- whether the event itself was a flop or a success...
...most powerful boy in Hollywood without being a man of many faces. There is Steven Spielberg the Good: he directs terrific pictures with sentiment and smarts. There is Steven the Strong: he godfathers Spielberg-style films that soar (Back to the Future) more often than they flop (Young Sherlock Holmes). But from the geriatric elite of Hollywood, Spielberg got no respect--no Oscars, that is. So here comes Steven the Nice, with his first "respectable" motion picture, an adaptation of Alice Walker's Pulitzer-prizewinning novel The Color Purple. It bears the same relation to his more personal films that...