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Friday, February 21,1986/The Battalion Page 3 State and Local pplause for singers fills coliseum /hoopin' good show draws mly slightly more than 2,000 JMC# j^^Products off Perms (With Becky) 3400 A. S. College 822-9515 App that wear rients fra it!" ares t and p ainlv has By CHRIS SIGURDSON Reporter Applause for the American Music Tour filled G. Roliie White Coliseum last night even if the people didn’t. Bniy slightly more than 2,000 people whooped, stomped and hol- jfered in response and appreciation for five of the best country acts |hville has to offer. Formed to help revive country music around the nation, the tour featured Eddie Rabbitt, the band Exile, Janie Fricke, T. G. Shepard and Sylvia; each taking about 25 minutes on stage. |Svlvia opened, on her own, doing jd work on a tough job. A little e pop than country-western, she the audience moving and sing- along with “Nobody” and a med- of past hits including “Tumble- Id” and "Drifter.” ext up, T. G. Shepard started with “Loved Them Every One”, laying games with his Slow Burn d and giving the audience back ifinany compliments as they gave lim. Cheers resounded for his “One *ner Heart” as the band quit play- g except for a pulsating, oass- rum heartbeat. The self-described hopeless ro mantic ended to a chorus of distinc- tively female screams w ith “Finally.” Things slowed down a bit with this year’s Grammy nominee, Janie Fricke. She brought it back with over six of her older top hits, like “It Ain’t Easy Being Easy” and “He’s A Heartache” and her recent “Easy to Please.” Exile came in after a 15-minute intermission with “Promises” and “Woke Up In Love” bringing at least a dozen young women to the foot of the stage with a pen in one hand and a cowboy boot in the other. Exile, a hard-driving band with few if any pauses in their music didn’t stop to sign any. Their “Give Me One More Chance” brought its own standing ovation and the band ended to a boisterous, foot-stomping call for an encore. If the other acts helped bring the people in, they were sure to stay for Eddie Rabbitt. The songwriter- turned-singer was the easy favorite with “Rocky Mountain Music” and “Driving My Life Away.” Rabbitt was having fun and it showed. Lit up by an infectious grin, he had the audience call up his road manager for a two-song, fiddle ses- T.G. Shepard sings in G sion. What followed was a rousing “Orange Blossom Special.” The individually strong acts were weak as a whole. The breaks be tween acts dragged by, and each per former had to recapture the spirit. And attending a concert in the coliseum was remniscent of a man- Rollie White Coliseum. datory high school assembly with its steel folding chairs and empty con crete bleachers. Nevertheless, the stars were pro fessionals. Not a word or a joke was uttered about what had to be a dis appointing turnout. Coca-Cola to buy Dr Pepper for $470 million t s eas\ loli history of: in the wi imitiveaiM al centuntsi ilyonee: ue after afc Associated Press Atlanta — Coca-Cola Co., ling to ensure it remains the na- [s leading soft-drink producer, Thursday it agreed to buy Dr ierCo. for $470 million. joca-Cola’s announcement came Ithan four weeks after its archri- Pepsico Inc., agreed to buy il-ranked Seven-Up Co. for $380 lion, which would have lifted fico to within a few percentage points of Coca-Cola’s top standing in the industry. But by purchasing No. 4 Dr Pep per, Coca-Cola would control about 46 percent of the domestic soft- drink market, outpacing the com bined 35 percent share held by Pep siCo and Seven-Up, industry analysts estimate. Assuming both mergers pass gov ernment scrutiny and are com pleted, Coca-Cola and Pepsico alone would then account for more than 80 percent of the market, which to tals $30 billion annually. Coca-Cola said under its prelimi nary agreement to buy Dr Pepper, which was approved by Coca-Cola’s directors, the purchase price in cluded Coca-Cola’s assumption of $ 170 million of Dr Pepper debt. Dr Pepper, based in Dallas, cur rently is a private company owned by the investment banking firm Forstmann Little & Co. and a group of Dr Pepper senior executives. They purchased the company two years ago for $650 million, after which they sold off the company’s Canada Dry division and nine bot tling plants and other assets. About 40 percent of the compa ny’s products — which include Dr Pepper, Diet Dr Pepper, Pepper Free and Sugar Free Pepper Free — are already bottled and distributed by Coca-Cola bottlers. length. 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It gives the company two days to bring in key engineers and managers to meet you. They’ll come from TI labs and sites to describe programs, answer questions, and schedule interviews. If you’re a top student, partic ularly in EE or Computer Science, this is an event you won’t want to miss. SIGN UP FOR INTERVIEWS IF YOU ARE GRADUATING WITH THESE DEGREES: Bachelor’s, Master’s or PhD degrees in: • Electrical Engineering • Computer Science • Mechanical Engineering • Industrial Engineering • Physics (Engineering and Solid-State) • MBA with technical under graduate degree mice i° r , i/i*- t.W itllW" 1 S r p^' 1 ml >» r 316 K iV-’ • Electrical Engineering Technology • Industrial Production Management Technology Briefings and sign-ups for interviews: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., February 26, Memorial Student Center, Rooms 212-224. Interviews (by appointment): February 27. Please bring your resume and a copy of your transcript or a list of courses. 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