Word: pepsi-cola
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...athletes give non-athletes an assist in business. The Cleveland-based Black Economic Union, founded four years ago by ex-Fullback Jim Brown and some of his Browns teammates, has offices in six cities to help blacks find jobs, business advice and capital. Brown, who worked off-season promoting Pepsi-Cola before he went to Hollywood, thinks that the next goal will be to encourage black businessmen to sell common stock and build large public corporations. "The black businessman does not want to give up 10% of his stock," Brown says. "He does not quite understand what it means...
...many foreign statesmen greeted Nixon's election with equanimity and even pleasure, it was partly because of familiarity. In his eight years as Vice President and five years as a paripatetic counsel for Pepsi-Cola, Nixon had met with virtually every world leader and with hundreds of the most prominent politicians from Paris to Pnompenh. The Shah of Iran sent a congratulatory cable citing "our long relationship of cordial amity." Even Gamal Abdel Nasser of the U.A.R., which has broken diplomatic ties with the U.S., expressed good wishes...
...stands with a permanent lopsided slouch, his left shoulder 1 in. higher than his right. He peers out at the world through one clear contact lens and one that is blue-tinted; he is simply too lazy to replace the other half of either pair. He is a Pepsi-Cola addict, but insists that he has kicked the habit: he drinks only ten 16-oz. bottles a day now instead of 15. He likes to read about J. Paul Getty, because he is so rich, and his hero is Frank Sinatra, "because he doesn't give a damn about anything...
...shares of Corn Products stock (worth $390 as of last week), she will also earn $100 for each day that she performs as a royal saleslady. The current Miss America, Kansas' Debra Dene Barnes, will pick up $100,000 this year for presiding at the opening of a Pepsi-Cola bottling plant or perching on the fender of a new Oldsmobile. Through similar promotions, the 49 other state finalists in the Miss America contest will reap about $20,000 each...
...resources to back up the new product. Founder of a successful Manhattan public relations firm still bearing his name, Relin took the reins of Blair Holdings Corp. ten years ago. While the company went through several name changes, Relin quietly built it into the world's largest independent Pepsi-Cola bottler and bought out two New York breweries, Liebmann (maker of Rheingold beer) and Jacob Ruppert. The company has used its acquisitions to increase sales from $26 million in 1962 to $187 million last year...