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...also very lucky." At the moment, he is eager to talk about the future of the soft-drink business, a topic on which he is extremely bullish. Most of that future, as Goizueta sees it, is overseas. The average American now consumes 50 gal.--the equivalent of 533.3 12-oz. bottles--of soft drink per year, but consumption abroad averages only 15% of that. Says Goizueta: "We have tremendous room for growth." As the company prepares to toast its triumphs with more kinds of Coke than John Styth Pemberton could ever have imagined, industry experts fully expect Goizueta...
What is needed, perhaps, is some mass debunking of the Harvard faculty. We have to show the Wizard of Oz for what he really is--minus the amplification and smokescreen. We have to jump on Gulliver like the Lilliputians (the metaphors are really piling up now) and rip off the false nose and mustache...
...office toting an overnight bag and rode to Washington's National Airport. Koch breezed through three airport metal detectors and into the departure lounge. That was as far as he planned to go. Inside his carry-on bag, Koch had concealed a 9-mm handgun that weighs only 23 oz. and is made partly of superhardened plastic. When disassembled, the Austrian-made weapon, known as the Glock 17, does not look like a firearm. Only its barrel, slide and springs, which are metal, show up on airport scanners. The polymer handgrip, trigger guard and ammunition clip that complete its profile...
...household appliance, Norie Shanta Perry is a lot smaller than even a bread box. Last week in Evanston, Ill., little Norie became the newest addition to the family of Sherry and William ("the Refrigerator") Perry. Born eight weeks prematurely, she weighed in at a delicate 3 lbs. 10 1/2 oz., a tiny fraction of her famous father's 300-plus lbs. She will be the third lady in the Perry household, joining Mom and her three-year-old big sister Latavia. "Now I'm outnumbered three to one," quipped the Chicago Bears defensive tackle, who celebrated by pass ing around...
...Purple people, one of the evening's best musical numbers might. While Irene Cara sang what was called a hymn to the losers, a list flashed on the screen of other motion pictures that had failed in the Best Picture category. They included Citizen Kane, Tootsie, The Wizard of Oz and, alas, Spielberg...