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...Cairo, began selling all through the Middle East and Africa. Pepsi's sales were boosted by its bigger bottle and sweeter-than-Coke taste while bright young sales specialists were shipped to the area by Pepsi President Alfred N. Steele. Now in many cities it is a nip & tuck race, although Coke still outsells Pepsi in the area. This year, on a single feast day, Egyptians guzzled some 2,000,000 bottles of Pepsi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: The Pepsi Culture | 8/4/1952 | See Source »

Disaster struck again. B.U. fell, but inspired Princeton romped to a 34 to 0 victory and Brown soon followed suit, 7 to 0. The sophomore clutched his date and glumly took a bootlegged nip at every adverse touchdown. Finally, 1924 repeated itself as songs, cheers, rallies, and secret lineups failed to prevent undefeated Yale from bulldozing the Crimson...

Author: By Davis C.d.rogers and Michael Maccosy, S | Title: '27 Enjoys 'Last Supper', Writes Pornography Visits Mediums, and Emerges Mature Seniors | 6/17/1952 | See Source »

...premium will be blacklisted." Hard-plunging Yale backs gave the visitors a 13 to 0 win in the driving rain. Hopelessly cheering till the last play, the man of '27 helped form a soggy 'H' with red and white handker-chiefs, tried lighting a Melachrino, took another nip at his pocket flash, and snuggled deeper into his raccoon coat. Afterwards he took his date to see the smash hit of the day, John Galsworthy's "Loyalties...

Author: By David C.D. Rogers, | Title: Riots, Mental Telepathy, Exams and Probation Among Vivid Memories of 1927's Initial Years | 6/16/1952 | See Source »

...tire change cost Vukovich the lead, to Ruttman, in the 135th lap; 11 laps later, for the same reason, Ruttman lost it back to Vukovich. And so it went, in a nip & tuck race. With only 50 miles to go, Vukovich, setting new speed records all along the line, had a fairly substantial (31 seconds) lead, but he could see from information flagged from his pit that Ruttman was gaining...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Nip & Tuck Race | 6/9/1952 | See Source »

...Chrysler engine. American-produced by Millionaire Sportsman Briggs S. Cunningham, the car was the U.S.'s big hope in a field dominated by Europeans. Dragging exhaust pipes forced the Cunningham out of the lead and out of the running in the twelfth lap. From there on, it was nip and tuck between Bill Spear's Italian Ferrari and Fred G. Wacker Jr.'s English Allard (with Cadillac engine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Road Race | 6/2/1952 | See Source »

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