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...militant wing of the Boston conservation movement. Ecology Action, will don gas masks in a protest rally outside the State House on the first day of the hearings. The group then intends to march to the Boston Edison Company to award the firm with a first prize blue ribbon for being the largest single source of air pollution in the area...
What has actually changed? There will be a new logotype on Coke cans, boxes, signs, trucks, cups, glasses and uniforms-everything but the bottles. But the logo will still spell Coca-Cola in the familiar flowing, baroque script. The new twisting white ribbon under the words is supposed to "echo" the wasp-waisted shape of the bottle. Coke signs and emblems, however, will now be square or at least rectangular; the old circles, diamonds and fish shapes will be banished from the company's advertising. Drivers of the 25,000 Coca-Cola trucks, a fleet that Coke officials claim...
...shares were offered in the U.S., where the Securities and Exchange Commission does not permit Cornfeld to operate because he refuses to submit to normal SEC scrutiny. Nonetheless, a blue-ribbon team of U.S. and foreign investment bankers underwrote the issue. Led by Manhattan's Drexel Harrison Ripley, the syndicate included France's Banque Rothschild, Britain's Hill Samuel, and Manhattan's Smith, Barney...
...still scared. Then when it started to come on, I thought, "How could such beautiful stuff hurt me?" I really dig acid raps. That's when you talk to the cat you took acid with about anything that comes into your mind. Once a big Day-Glo ribbon materialized and hovered three or four inches above the ground. It was about 7 ft. long and 2 ft. thick. Everything that I was going to say was written on that ribbon in pink letters before I was going to say it, so I just read the ribbon to talk. Acid...
...pays Crane the usual tribute of trying to understand him in perspective. This isn't always easy. The word was actually "made flesh" for Crane in love affairs with sailors. He threw typewriters out of windows. "I saw all the trees below his window festooned with the typewriter ribbon," a friend remembers. Still, Unterecker cautions, "if Crane tossed out of windows everything that his acquaintances have him tossing, most of America, half of Europe, and all of Mexico would still be littered with far-flung typewriters." He invaded the lives of his many good friends the way his parents...