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...public relations terms, it was a costly victory. There he goes again, the standard argument ran, imposing his sectarian morality on a world already hungry and facing billions of new mouths to feed in the coming decades. One Spanish critic said the Pope had "become a traveling salesman of demographic irrationality." Says dissident Swiss theologian Hans Kung: "This Pope is a disaster for our church. There's charm there, but he's closed-minded." The British Catholic weekly the Tablet summed up Cairo, "Never has the Vatican cared less about being unpopular than under Pope John Paul...
...salesman," Springman says. "I like selling, period, plus [I'm selling] for a good cause...
America has become the No. 1 weapons salesman in the world...
...shrinking itself and its role in the nation's life. "I was angry that every problem identified by Washington was considered a crisis and that the only answer they could come up with was to throw more money at it," said Bill Kovach, 39, a Chicago medical-supplies salesman and Democrat who helped oust Dan Rostenkowski last week...
...Crimson Pirate, an ebullient homage to Douglas Fairbanks that drew on Lancaster's own acrobatic skills, and later as the consummate con man in both Elmer Gantry (for which he won an Oscar in 1961) and The Rainmaker. Before hitting it big at 33, Lancaster had been a salesman too, and these performances suggested that here was a man who could peddle any dream to anybody...