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Coors's sales have declined every year since the boycott began in 1977. Before the boycott, Coors had only one brand of beer. Now it has five--Coors, Coors Light, Herman Joseph 1868, Golden Lager, and Killian's Irish Red. In 1977 Coors sold 14 million barrels of beer in 11 states. In 1984 Coors sold only 13.2 million barrels in 37 states and the District of Columbia. Meanwhile the company's advertising budget has increased by a factor of almost 20. Coors is vulnerable. By joining the boycott now students and others can help keep the pressure...
About ten years ago, the Mount Herman Academy crew and their coach Charles Hamilton came up to Cambridge to row in the youth eights. "The first boat to come through lost three oars when they hit the abutment of the middle arch," Olrich says. "Then the second boat hit the arch and it hobbled to the finish. By that time Charlie Hamilton couldn't look anymore, and sure enough the third boat...
...20th century. Now the brash and blabby Edward Koch is about to join them. Last week he won the nomination for a third four- year term with the heaviest majority in any Democratic mayoral primary this century. Koch, 60, vaporized his opponents, City Council President Carol Bellamy and Assemblyman Herman D. Farrell Jr., by taking 64% of the city's Democratic vote. His electric personality and his record in helping restore the city's financial prosperity after its brush with bankruptcy in the 1970s apparently outweighed criticism that he is insensitive to the city's poor. Koch faces anemic opposition...
...measures, said the official, are consistent with the Administration's policy of "constructive engagement," the quiet diplomacy designed to nudge the South African government toward racial reform. To press that point, it is expected, Reagan will announce that he is sending Ambassador Herman Nickel back to South Africa this week. The Ambassador will carry a letter from Reagan and will be charged with urging reforms on Pretoria. Nickel was recalled to Washington in June after South African troops made an incursion into Botswana in search of antigovernment guerrillas...
...think the movie is mere silliness. But then that's what Pee Wee's humor is all about: childishness. Paul Reubens is not an actor playing Pee Wee, he is Pee Wec. (A few months ago, Reubens dropped his real name and "became" Pee Wee Herman, refusing to answer to his former off stage name...