Word: projects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...countryside, cutting off Oriente from the rest of Cuba. Fidel's brother, Raul, led his 150 men out of the Sierra del Cristal, 100 miles northeast of the main rebel strongholds. One night at Moa Bay they held the Freeport Sulphur Co.'s $75 million nickel mining project for twelve hours before pulling out. With no traffic moving in or out of Santiago, residents began dipping into hoarded food supplies. The rebels admitted that they were not yet ready to take Santiago by armed assault, and the army seemed in no mood to leave the cities...
Pepsi Merger? After his victory, Perlstein announced that he will take up again a major project interrupted by the proxy fight: merger talks with the Pepsi-Cola Co. Perlstein started the merger talks while the proxy fight was brewing, but Pepsi President Alfred Steele broke off the talks when he saw that the fight was inevitable. Steele, who took over Pepsi when it was floundering and sent sales and profits soaring, apparently felt he could do the same for Pabst; Pabst also stood to gain by Pepsi's crack management and salesmanship...
Some of the sheep have learned to fear Dr. Fry's brisk impatience. One such was a delegate who held the floor at a conference with a tedious speech declaring his readiness to "go to bat" for some project. On his third repetition of this phrase, Fry banged down his gavel and intoned: "Three strikes-you're out!" Other sheep become altogether too sheeplike-as did one bemused delegate who rose to proclaim: "I move what President Fry thinks...
SPECIAL RADIO -TELEVISION AWARD: NBC for its special programs beamed over U.S. educational stations and its Know Your Schools project...
Desi will plow $7,500,000 into his 1958-59 production schedule so confidently that "this time we're going to do the shows first and then go looking for a sponsor." The main project: Desilu Playhouse, which, with Desi as host, will offer weekly hour-long dramatic and musical productions, plus a dozen 90-minute spectaculars, including Don Quixote and six Desi-Lucy comedies. All the shows will be tailored to this Arnaz pattern: "No violence, no psychopaths, no dirtiness. There will never be any need to send the kids to bed when we come...