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Andreessen grew up in Wisconsin, where his father is a retired salesman and his mother works for Lands' End. While an undergraduate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, he helped develop a program called Mosaic that makes it easier to navigate around the Internet. Paid $6.85 an hour, he was actually supposed to be writing software for three-dimensional scientific visualization. The university was enthusiastic about Mosaic, however. It gave the program away, earning the team that wrote it the undying devotion of the Internet underground. Jim Clark, who had founded Silicon Graphics, a computer firm known...
YOUR CHOICE OF GINGRICH IS A SLAP IN the face to many Americans. It is a disgrace to name this social wimp and babbling salesman instead of one of the many who made real and significant contributions that benefited America and the world during 1995. ED TOWERS Mission Viejo, California...
POOR RICHARD NIXON: THE MOST human President of the television age. A better statesman than politician, a tireless but graceless campaigner, a successful salesman who was liked but not well liked, the man seemed uncomfortable in his own skin. The canniest moments in the three-plus hours of Nixon, Oliver Stone's dense, ultimately disappointing biopic, capture Nixon at his most pathetically endearing--the Commander in Chief as klutz. In a telling vignette lifted from Woodward and Bernstein's The Final Days, Nixon (Anthony Hopkins) gets so frustrated at his inability to remove a medicine safety cap that he finally...
...just that last March, on the day before one of their 20-month-old triplets underwent major surgery to correct a defective esophagus. "They put out the deception that everything was fine with the insurance because they kept deducting from our paychecks," says Roger Lindsay, who worked as a salesman for the Regina vacuum-cleaner company, which is under new management. But the previous owners had failed to pay the premiums that were due on Lindsay's medical policy for his last four paychecks, allowing the coverage to lapse...
...unofficial designation, recognized only by the real estate elite, but RALPH ROBERTS is the best-selling Realtor in America this year. By the end of October, the almost pathologically can-do salesman from Warren, Michigan, had sold more than 500 homes, priced on average at $115,000. He did it with the help of two car phones, a swarm of assistants to do the paperwork, and countless fridge magnets, flyers and referrals. Other techniques are less orthodox--and, alas, less tasteful. He sends out letters to people who are in foreclosure or going through a divorce. He lends buyers money...