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...teetotaler, Joe's strength is as the strength of ten because his drink is pure-Kola Loca Lemonade, for which he is Western sales representative. Though a deadly shot, he aims mainly for a greater share of the market by getting endorsements from notorious gunslingers. Lou and Winifred start lowering their eyes and necklines in his direction, but the Badman brothers start raising hell. In a grand-horse-opera finale, everyone gets plugged and expires in a heap on boot hill. Infusions of Kola Loca magically resurrect them all, whereupon Joe, Horace, Doug and Lou discover that they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Cracking the Code | 12/15/1967 | See Source »

...backed political candidates, a form of intimidation banned by Nigerian law. To ensure compliance with Owegbe commands, initiates were ushered through a grisly ritual, cut three times on the cheek or chest, then made to eat the heart of a cockerel and down a loathsome liquid potion brewed from kola nuts and wine and the blood, hair, finger and toenails of a dead cultist. They finally bound themselves to Owegbe with 24 oaths, each ending with a chilling refrain: "If I refuse . . . let Owegbe make juju...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nigeria: The Power of Juju | 9/3/1965 | See Source »

Some, of course, came to prey as well as pray. Sixty Nigerian Moslems were arrested for smuggling kola nuts, an illegal stimulant, into Saudi Arabia; police thoughtfully escorted the offenders through the hajj ritual, then brought them back to Jeddah for prosecution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Faiths: The Moslem World's Struggle to Modernize | 4/16/1965 | See Source »

...with Brazilian coffee (15?), Tunisian nougatine (45?) with Indian tea (free), North African bricka (65?) with Norwegian loganberry punch (40?). Although the Vatican has yet to provide a snack bar serving fish on Fridays, the American-Israel pavilion caters to Jewish dietary laws with kosher frankfurters and kosher Kola...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New York Fair: RESTAURANTS | 9/11/1964 | See Source »

When the Air Force reported the plane lost, the Russians piously joined in the search. For ten days, until Khrushchev returned from a junket to Austria, they remained silent about the attack. Then they announced that they had shot the plane down over Soviet waters near the Kola Peninsula. Olmstead and McKone, the only survivors, were in prison. They would, cried Nikita, be tried as spies, "under the full rigor of Soviet law." Such vehemence seemed only natural after the loud propaganda that followed the capture of U-2 Pilot Powers and Khrushchev's intransigence in Paris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cold War: Return of the Airmen | 2/3/1961 | See Source »

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