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PepsiCo is a parent corporation for six operating divisions which include Pepsi-Cola, Frito-Lay and Taco Bell...
...those companies, Frito-Lay, the maker of GrandMa's Rich'n Chewy, has now countersued P & G for trying to eliminate competition in the $2.4 billion-a-year packaged-cookie industry. While denying that an employee had misrepresented himself in order to filch secrets, Frito-Lay admitted that it sent a worker to photograph the outside of a Duncan Hines bakery. But, the firm said, the man's college-age son acted without its knowledge when he walked into the plant and asked for unbaked dough. Frito-Lay said it destroyed both the dough and the photos...
...Nuclear Saints performed several experiments, one knitted a blue and maize "nose cone warmer" to protect missiles from the cold of winter. Another tried to create life from Frito's Corn Chips and refried beans...
DIED. Herman Lay, 73, snack-food supersalesman and entrepreneur who created the first national brand of potato chips as the head of the Dallas-based Frito-Lay Co. (1961-65), but couldn't stop with just one and kept building and merging until he was board chairman (1965-71) of the giant conglomerate PepsiCo; of cancer; in Dallas...
There was Bob Dole, working the Frito-and-cheese table in Kissimmee Hall and predicting, "When all the rhetoric has died, I will be your nominee." Phil Crane declared optimistically, "This gives me the chance to break out of the crowd...