Members of Kibbutz Givat Brenner were pleasantly surprised last week to see that President Reagan and the heads of West European states were treated to fresh orange juice bottled in their kibbutz “Rimon” fruit-juice bottling plant.
The kibbutzniks nudged each other, while viewing a segment of a television newsreel, when they noticed the bottles on the tables at a banquet held in Bonn in honor of the heads of state during their economic summit meeting.
The bottles clearly bore the label of the Hitchcock brand — the brand name used in Europe for the Givat Brenner citrus juice product. The Rimon factory last year exported some $12 million worth of citrus fruit juices to Europe, mainly to West Germany and France.
CORRECTION
A reference by Nathan Perlmutter, director of the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith, to President Reagan’s “gentle eloquence” at Bergen-Belsen inadvertently appeared as Reagan’s “gentile eloquence” in the May 6 Daily News Bulletin Special Supplement.
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