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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...JONES. Director Tony Richardson has made the greatest comic novel in the language into a gaudy, bawdy, bloody, beautiful and side-shatteringly funny farce, the best British movie since Olivier's Henry V. Albert Finney plays the hero as a marvelously likable lout, and Hugh Griffith hilariously demonstrates that in the good old days an Englishman whose passion was the chase could usually run down a pretty little dear...
Mexico City won hands down with 30 votes, v. 14 for Detroit, 12 for Lyon, 2 for Buenos Aires. "What helped Mexico," says Avery Brundage, president of the International Olympic Committee, "was that it is one of the smaller countries, and some members felt that they could do more for the Olympic movement on the whole by giving encouragement to such a country...
...health in the airline business. The eleven U.S. trunk lines ran into heavy financial trouble in 1961-62 because of the high costs of the new jets and the disappointingly low number of new passengers, but they have earned $27 million in 1963's first eight months, v. a $10 million loss for the year-ago period...
...more significantly, contributes 5% of revenues. With the help of such new equipment as triple-deck cars that carry 18 new automobiles, railroads are recovering much of the business they lost to the truckers; 25% of all new cars now move out of U.S. assembly plants by rail v. only 8% just two years...
When it gets down to the job each man faces, the similarities end. Besides trying to beef up Pepsi's distribution and marketing system (520 U.S. outlets v. 1,100 for Coke), Kendall needs to broaden his one-product company, is searching around for likely food-line mergers. Austin, on the other hand, can look out from his executive suite in Atlanta on a far-flung organization that has already taken that step; in addition to Coke, he has a promising line of frozen and canned juices, coffee and tea that accounts for 20% of Coke's sales...