Word: popcorned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...began thinking. Not about downing a soft drink but about acceding to a hard-to-resist proposal from Pepsi (estimated 1964 sales: $240 million) to merge with his Frito-Lay, Inc., which last year sold $184 million worth of such snacks as corn and potato chips, dip mixes, candied popcorn, pretzels and related products. At 55, Lay isn't so old. But Pepsi President Donald M. Kendall is only 43, and he is surrounded by a youthfully energetic executive team. "I like those fellas," said Lay. "I need the association of younger people...
...swallow so preposterous a platter of wiesserschnitzel, 36 hours will have you gagging on our popcorn. The success of the Normandy Landing is hardly in doubt, but Garner manages, with Eva Marie Saint in tow, to lead the Krauts a merry chase...
...fairness to New Jersey's popcorn playpen, the resort has much to offer: vast, spotless beaches where no eating, drinking, "disrobing" or ball playing is allowed; miles of boardwalk ideal for cool-hour bicycling (from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. only); an excellent golf course. Its 24-hour jitney bus service at 20? a ride is one of the best and chummiest rapid-transit systems anywhere. And for slow-slow transit, the boardwalk's famed "rolling chairs," both motorized and hand-propelled, give jaded visitors the most opulent ride this side of a ricksha. Moreover, Atlantic City...
Bradley, a 33-year-old former fullback for the Cleveland Browns, offers his audience as few comforts as possible. The Studio serves only hot wine and popcorn, and the customers are crowded unmercifully into a room scarcely larger than a pool table. The boss pays his performers only food and carfare, and the constantly changing program denies them even the salve of star billing. To pure folk singers, though, the problems are minor, and the Studio has become a shrine that wins the affectionate services of such stars as Odetta, Bob Dylan and Pete Seeger when they pass through town...
...business is successfully exporting its machines and methods abroad, smaller American entrepreneurs are also exporting that dream. In Europe, Southeast Asia, Latin America, even Africa, hundreds of Americans-who often get their first business ideas while traveling as tourists-are setting up every sort of business from popcorn stands to advertising agencies...