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...Mass. Army-Navy Store] looking at shoes with a friend," says Pinnock. "A salesman asked a white girl if she needed help but she said, No, but you need to help those niggers over there...
...done something different, maybe I'd be a car salesman in Dallas," he says.CrimsonErie P. WilfodROBERT T. BROOKS...
Yeoman service of a different sort came from bureau driver Kazuo Tsubaki, a % former octopus salesman at the vast Tokyo fish market. Recalls Makihara: "At my request, Tsubaki-san chatted up several fishmongers to find out how the imperial household collects 2,700 fresh sea bream for its six wedding banquets." Answer: it asks fishing ports nationwide to set aside their entire catch of foot-long bream...
...Sherri: winning a medal in a marathon; accepting her high school diploma; hugging her mother, whom she considered her best friend. "I thought her childhood was pretty happy," says Mosher, "but maybe it wasn't." Sherri, born 43 years ago in Honolulu, the only child of a salesman and a schoolteacher, was uprooted when her parents separated and her mother moved with her to California. But "I gave her everything -- all the ballet, music, gymnastics, swimming classes -- so she could decide what she liked," says Mosher. "We were very close; we didn't have anyone else." When Sherri graduated from...
...Great salesman that he is, Clinton can be viewed as a victim of his own success. His insistence on deficit reduction -- and his cajoling of Congress to support a multiyear plan to accomplish it -- is the very definition of courage in modern American politics. "He has stirred into life a debate from which the republic could have greatly benefited had it taken place a decade earlier," says the historian Arthur Schlesinger. "He has broken the taboo that has long banned the tax question from public discussion." Should he then be blamed when Republicans follow his lead and scuttle a pork...