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...rith's Manhattan-based Anti-Defamation League charged that the Coca-Cola Co., in denying a franchise to a Tel Aviv bottler, was kowtowing to the Arab nations' boycott against foreign firms that do business with Israel. After all, noted the league, Coke has plants in 18 Arab states that might be closed down if the Tel Aviv franchise were granted...
...reply from Coca-Cola Export Corp. Chairman James A. Farley, Franklin Roosevelt's old campaign manager. The company, snapped Farley, was not about to honor "any boycott." Fact was, he continued, that the Israeli bottler in question, the Tempo Beverage Co., was an undesirable business associate; in 1963, Coke had to go to court to make Tempo stop "infringement of the Coca-Cola trademark and bottle design." And Tempo, inevitably, was the disgruntled bottler that had complained to the Anti-Defamation League in the first place. Muttered a league spokesman: "I can't understand why they didn...
...other academic professional people with well-educated backgrounds." The station doesn't even try, or want to try, to infringe on the listenership of WBZ, or WMEX. Its FM advertising, for example, is almost entirely for publications such as The National Observer, or the Boston theaters. The beer and coke ads go only over the closed AM circuit to Harvard and Radcliffe...
...they still take their spring training in Palm Springs, and that is no place for a man to keep his mind on his work. Unless he has the determination, say, of Pitcher Marcelino Lopez. Lopez flies as high as any Angel, but he sticks to beer and Coke-mostly mixed together. "It tastes like a malted milk," he says, "and you never get drunk...
...hospital with a broken leg, Toots was asked if he'd like a drink and, to show either the shock he was in or his sense of historic drama, he replied: "Yes, I'd like a Coke...