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...Even though it seemed unlikely that there was cause for great alarm," says Senior Editor Walter Isaacson, "anytime the President has to undergo serious surgery, it's major news." The decision to switch covers was quickly made, and the week's third and final choice was the presidential surgery. While the Business staff reluctantly cut back the nearly completed Coke story to five pages, a host of reporter-researchers, writers and editors, as well as members of the art and picture departments, canceled weekend plans and got down to work. Around the country, correspondents switched their attention from old Coke...
...noon and night. ABC interrupted its soap opera General Hospital on Wednesday afternoon to break the news. In the kind of saturation coverage normally reserved for disasters or diplomatic crises, the decision to bring back old Coke was prominently reported on every evening network news broadcast. ABC featured the switch on its Night Line and 20/20 shows...
Even Goizueta's father spoke out against the switch when it was announced in April. Telephoning from his Mexico City home, the elder man told his son that the move was a bad one, and jokingly threatened to disown him. Last week, the Coca-Cola chairman said, his father called "to take me back...
...Meese. Presser has also served as a much valued informer for the FBI on Teamsters-related matters. One Justice official said the department's approval of an indictment against Presser seemed certain until last month. "Up to then, the light was green," he said. "But then somebody threw a switch." TERRORISM Offering a Reward for Killers...
...hangar." Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon and "the last guy at Edwards to take any advice from a military pilot," ignores a warning and sticks his aircraft in mud. Yeager's comment on Richard Bong, a former fighter ace who died because he neglected to switch on a fuel pump: "Dick wasn't interested in homework...