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...entire afternoon any American citizen sufficiently concerned with his country's future will be able to phone up the vice-President and swap ideas. For example, at the cost of only a few dollars, Senator Kennedy could put in a person-to-person phone call, thereby arranging an under-the-table fifth television debate. The possibilities, of course, are limitless...
COCA-COLA and MINUTE MAID are talking merger. In first major diversification move in its 74-year history, Coca-Cola offers to swap about 900,000 shares of its stock (current value: $59 million) for all of Minute Maid's stock at the rate of 2.2 shares of Minute Maid for one of Coca-Cola...
...candidates, only 50 dared openly to campaign as members of the onetime dominant Liberal Party of ex-President Syngman Rhee. But even this failed to appease the students still intoxicated with the sense of their own power, who seemed to think that mob rule was a good swap for Rhee repression. At Samchonpo, Yun-yang and Kumchon, student rowdies burned 44 ballot boxes. Explained one young student, stopped in the act of tossing a box into the flames: "We are afraid the Rhee Liberals might be winning...
...ticket to Tokyo had been bought by the Ikeda faction. But before he could board the plane, he was approached by a forceful hakoshi, or delegate rustler, from a rival faction, who persuaded him to swap his air ticket for a first-class train ride, "all meals paid for, and plenty of sake." But once aboard the train, the delegate fell in with a smooth-talking hakoshi of the Fujiyama faction, who persuaded him to descend for a night of pleasure in the resort town of Atami, 60 miles short of Tokyo. Before resuming the journey next day. the delegate...
...Swap Stop. In Manchester, England, an advertisement in the Evening News pleaded: "Will the parents of the boy who gave a little boy an apple in exchange for his tricycle kindly return it at once...