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They looked a little older and were perhaps not quite so bouncy: 30 years is a long time by any measurement. But his voice still sounded like an overloaded station wagon lumbering up a gravel road, her wisecracks could still break open a Brink's vault, and they projected the same vitality they did when they were feuding, fussing and making up on Chauncey Street in Brooklyn. Jackie Gleason and Audrey Meadows, otherwise known as Ralph and Alice Kramden, the Honeymooners, were back together in Miami last week, taping an NBC special to be aired next Monday. As Gleason used...
Most of the shows from the vault actually predate those now being seen; they were originally aired between 1952 and 1957, when The Honeymooners was a continuing segment on Gleason's one-hour variety show for CBS. Ralph and Alice lived in that dingy two-room apartment on Chauncey Street even then, and their best friends were already their upstairs neighbors, Ed and Trixie Norton (Art Carney and Joyce Randolph). Unlike most other sitcom couples of the '50s, the Honeymooners were not middle class, but the working poor. Ralph earned $62 a week driving a bus; Norton worked...
...four employees who work the unenviable night shift at Wells Fargo's fortress-like depot in lower Manhattan reported for duty at 1 a.m. Two were guards carrying service revolvers; two were unarmed. Their job was to open the vault and load an armored car with money bags destined for the Federal Reserve Bank. One of the four, who knew the first half of the vault's combination, executed his part of the routine. Then another, who knew the second part of the combination, opened the safe, which contained about $20 million...
...raging battle for dominance of the $23 billion U.S. soft- drink market. Roberto Goizueta, 53, chairman of Coca-Cola (1984 sales: $7.4 billion), said that the old Coke formula, with its secret flavoring ingredient, called Merchandise 7X, will stay locked in a Trust Co. of Georgia bank vault in Atlanta, never to be used again. Next to it, though, will be the new formula, with a new supersecret ingredient, called Merchandise 7X-100. This is the first flavor change in 99 years for the world's biggest-selling soda, and Coke called it "the most significant soft-drink development...
...well. If indictments are not handed down as a result of the Justice Department probe by this summer, Veliotis promises to release still more tapes and documents that he claims will further incriminate General Dynamics' top management and former Government officials. The additional evidence is in the vault of an Athens bank and, says Veliotis, his lawyers have instructions to release the , information should he be "neutralized...