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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Knowing exactly where they stood, the companies could say to their banks: "We are going to be compensated. Can we have money to start to diversify?" The "Snarr Plan" would cost some $500 million and offensive billboards would vanish in a few years...
...enacted, it ought to be implemented." Second, if the law is ever funded, all billboard men who are put out of business by the act will be compensated-to the tune of $3 million in Snarr's case. A fervent capitalist, Snarr would like to start again, maybe in restaurants...
Leonard vowed strict enforcement of civil rights laws, and he made a creditable start. Under his direction, the Civil Rights Division has filed 33 lawsuits against segregation in public accommodations and 15 against discrimination in housing. Last week-perhaps to assuage critics on the eve of his Supreme Court appearance-the division asked a federal court in Atlanta to compel Georgia to integrate its public schools by the start of the 1970-71 year...
Terribly Intuitive. Coca-Cola officials, caught unprepared by the ban, worked round the clock, preparing advertising copy and arranging to start production of a saccharin-sweetened syrup for Fresca, which will contain only two calories in eight ounces. "This was a jumping joint," says Charles W. Adams, senior vice president. "We got a lot of printers up in the middle of the night." PepsiCo, which began marketing a new Diet Pepsi the day the ban was announced, attributed its switch to a burst of altruism. Big ads in newspapers noted solemnly: the "Pepsi-Cola Company cannot in good conscience offer...
...From the start the purpose of the Center has been to study the processes of change affecting international affairs, especially in the fields of development, the role and control of force, and the relations among the advanced countries of Europe and the Atlantic area. It has sought to foster work drawing on various disciplines and on field studies and experience...