Word: salesman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...century society. This "revolution of rising expectations," as Economist Staley called it, has only intensified the struggle to seek a more abundant life. In India, for example, the market for bicycles is booming upward at 30% a year, while shoe sales are rising only 4%. Explained one village bicycle salesman: "The villagers are getting lazy. They don't want to walk any more; they want bicycles." While modern communications have whetted consumer appetites in Pakistan as in Peoria, the danger is that nations whose production continues to lag far behind their hopes of material progress will resort to political...
Couple Three is a doomed duo: a used-car salesman (Tony Randall) in urgent need of a muffler on the mouth, and a girl (Sheree North) who looks as though five or six years of marriage have put 100,000 miles on her. The husband talks big, earns small, and drinks to forget the discrepancy. He dreams of the killing he will make some day, and never notices that he is murdering his wife by inches...
Sealed Off. Finally, Naga guerrillas, under the leadership of a former schoolteacher and insurance salesman named A. Z. Phizo, sharpened their native daos, collected an armory of ill-assorted and outdated British, U.S. and Japanese guns, and went to war, demanding complete independence. Jawaharlal Nehru, who likes to keep the skeletons in his own closet well hidden from the world, promptly sealed off the entire embattled area from the prying eyes of newsmen, both Indian and foreign, and dispatched 9,000 Indian troops to put down the trouble...
Unfortunately, there are other incidental characters scattered about for various reasons, and some of them detract considerably from the fun. George Cole is unnecessarily tedious as a naive vacuum cleaner salesman, and Jill Adams's prettiness does not hide her bland acting as a bride-to-be with whom Cole gets entangled under...
...Vicki's pistol-packing admirers comes around looking for his "special baby," there is no one to protect her new-found honor. Louellen is an erstwhile tomboy who has budded into overnight femininity, but none of the local boys will give her a tumble until a traveling salesman plays hide-and-seek with her among the whispering pines...