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Could the Soviets have mistaken their target for a U.S. RC-135 reconnaissance plane that had been on a mission in the region near where the Korean jet went off course? Marshal Ogarkov reiterated the Soviet claim that the KAL plane was on a spy mission and flew in tandem with the RC-135 for ten minutes so that the blips of the two planes merged on Soviet radar screens. When they separated, he implied, the Soviets could not tell which was which. U.S. officials dismiss this scenario as ludicrous. The two planes, they say, passed each other 86 miles...
...arts festival with $450,000 in support from American Express. Only a fourth of the anticipated crowd showed up. Such misadventures have not deterred the city of Chicago. Many companies back its summer Chicago Fest. Annual cost: about $6 million, almost $700,000 of it from Coke, Pepsi, RC Cola, Budweiser and Miller, among others...
...down/ Let's start livin' our dream/ Make the whole world our town." Royal Crown Cola suggested that "me"-decade selfishness was really an aristocratic demand for perfection: "What's good enough for other folks/ Ain't good enough for/ Me and my RC." Datsun started capitalizing in 1977 on the American obsession with Japan's supposed workaholism and business acumen via "Datsun, We Are Driven." Ford appealed to the old can-do spirit with "We Make the Impossible Possible...
...Cabin Creek Coffee House. It is a warm and welcome refuge from the coal-dust-blackened slush outside and the dispiriting sight of the empty coal hoppers-as idle as the miners-on the railroad tracks across the road. The men pass the hours playing pool, drinking RC Cola and strong black coffee (35? a cup with a refill on the house) and talking about hunting, fishing and making ends meet...
...conducted in private jets that whisper swiftly through the silvery prairie night. Then there is the hardscrabble Texas, dusty and dun, which fans out westward from Fort Worth to towns like Dilley and Draw and Del Rio, where the good ole boys gather round gas-station coolers to drink RC Colas and tell lazy lies. It is a sullen land, worked by silent, leathery men and their resilient women...