Word: door-to-door
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...snob queen of Fifth Avenue and points south and west (it also has stores in Atlanta, Chicago, Houston, Beverly Hills and San Francisco). Last week Tiffany surprised almost everybody by agreeing to sell its whole business?lock, stock and bauble. The buyer will be Avon Products, Inc., the door-to-door giant that knows a lot more about cold cream than carats. Selling to such a mass-not-class company would seem to betray a rare streak of egalitarianism in Tiffany Chairman Walter Hoving, whose often stated political views would make Marie Antoinette's sound like Vanessa Redgrave...
...Avon does not intend to abuse the Tiffany name in flogging its own cheaper wares. Says John Riedy, an analyst at Drexel, Burnham, Lambert: "That would be like putting a Rolls Royce label on a Pinto." Instead, the company plans next year to test-market a whole new line: door-to-door vitamins...
...Temple had become before many of its members left California. Jim Jones became the late George Moscone's Housing Authority Commissioner in San Francisco two years ago because he could, on six hours' notice, produce two or three thousand obedient bodies to flesh out a campaign rally or go door-to-door with literature. His services apparently went to the politico willing to do the most in return. Jones could deliver, even if his political army was somehow reminiscent of Nixon's Youth in 1972, that wonderful army that would begin spontaneous cheering at 9:28 and spontaneously...
...second-semester junior, who declared last June, spent all but two weekends since registration wooing votes. Campbell conducted a door-to-door compaign and enlisted 25 friends to help him write more than 1300 letters. In all, the campaign cost him $650--for stamps, bumperstickers and "beer to feed friends...
...combat the competition, Campbell has taken to the streets with a door-to-door campaign strategy. Working with a $650 budget and a volunteer staff of 25 friends, he has also sent out 1300 letters and distributed bumperstickers...