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...from Pelham Bay, Crazy Joey, Joe Palisades and Staten Island Joe; Charlie Bullets and Charlie the Blade; Trigger Mike, Skinny Mike and Black Mike; Black Jim, Jimmy Blue Eyes, Jimmy the Blond and Jimmy the Sniff; Johnny Bath Beach and John the Bug; Mr. Gribs and The Gap, Kid Blast and The Sidge; The Sheik and The Cat; Benny the Bum, Teddy the Bum and Jerry the Lug; Big Sam, Fat Dom and Fat Freddie; Good Looking Al, Big Nose Nick, Cockeye Nick and Cockeye Phil; Pip the Blind and Eyeglasses. And three fellows named Tea Bags, Four Cents...
...handy. In the huge industry that has grown up to satisfy this thirst, 77-year-old Coca-Cola is still by far the leader, with 1962 sales of $568 million and profits of $47 million. Coke's closest competitor is Pepsi-Cola, which has closed part of the gap in the last decade by aggressive marketing but still trails Coke with 1962 sales of $192 million and profits of $15 million. Third in the field, but far behind both Coke and Pepsi, is Royal Crown, with 1962 sales of $28 million...
...such matters Selassie is in a position to speak for much of Africa. His effective leadership as honorary president of the summit conference on African unity in Addis Ababa last May established his position as a moderate who might bridge the communications gap between the widely divergent African factions. In his own land his tight rule is controversial, but from a pragmatic U.S. point of view it has been effective. Ethiopia is fiscally sound, is one of the few nations to repay its lend-lease obligations in full. Selassie dispatched troops to U.N. combat in both Korea and the Congo...
...Snow thinks the cultural gap in this country is between the sciences and the humanities. But in the city of Cambridge, the cultural gap is between Harvard Square and Central Square, and it is enormous. Central Square is the perfect example of a business center in a middle-sized American city: it is brash, noisy, ugly, vital and standardized. Harvard Square, on the other hand, is almost entirely the creature of Harvard University, and its commercial life is geared to the tastes and requirements of the University and its students...
Robert H. Gardiner, Treasurer of Radcliffe College, said that this problem is still "far in the future, and will only be temporary in nature. But I suppose when the time comes the College can rent some more houses or make some other stop-gap arrangement to make room for the girls...