Word: pepsi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Walt's Wonders. Disney's realistic robots, in fact, stalk the fair. Pepsi-Cola has about 350 of them, doll-size, flanking a boat ride that children seem to like more than anything else. Scottish dolls climb steep plaid mountains, Iranian dolls fly on Persian carpets, and French dolls cancan. The dolls sing an original tune about the cohesion of the peoples of the world that might have been composed by Wendell Willkie...
Died. Austen Herbert Groom-John son, 54, co-father of the singing commercial, a onetime NBC program idea man who teamed with Announcer Alan Kent in 1939 to write "Pepsi-Cola Hits the Spot," a jingle that jangled for 20 years until Pepsi decided to "be sociable"; of a heart attack; in New York...
...While Mr. Goldwater has been pleading for a prehistoric party platform, while Mr. Rockefeller has been playing partisan politics, while Mr. Nixon has been pushing Pepsi-Cola, and while Mr. Scranton has been patiently standing pat in Pennsylvania, Lodge has been busy doing the job that must be done. He has been practicing Americanism in Saigon while others have been content merely to preach it in the suburbs...
...TIME was erroneously informed that some of the proceeds from "It's a Small World-A Salute to UNICEF" ride at the World's Fair go to the United Nations Children's Fund. UNICEF benefits from Pepsi-Cola generosity in the form of free land, an exhibit, and a sales counter staffed by volunteers. These are an outright donation-but not the proceeds of Walt Disney's delightful ride...
...small shareholder in Canada Dry since 1960, Simon became interested in getting Hunt into the company when he noticed that Canada Dry's growth had failed to match Coke's or Pepsi's; on sales of $103 million in the last nine months of 1963, it earned only $3,600,000-less than half the percentage of profits from sales that its bigger rivals have become accustomed to. Last year, and early this year, Simon had Hunt Foods quietly buy up 8% of Canada Dry's stock, then asked the company's managers-who collectively...