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First stop is Granger Oldsmobile in Countryside, where Drew bought his Olds 98. "That one there!" Heather cries right away, pointing to a photo of a cherry-red Cutlass Supreme convertible. Salesman Dan Leversen cautions her, "That's the hardest car to get ahold of." He has no red Cutlass convertibles, but "we have a white one coming in." Julie's eyes widen in alarm as Leversen reveals the $24,232 sticker price. "I doubt Dad would spend $24,000," Julie says...
...next dealer, Dan Wolf Pontiac, where Drew bought Heather's Sunbird, the salesman is pleasantly surprised to see the Starsiaks back in the market so soon. Idle salesmen gather around as if to observe a rare species...
...wonderful," Heather gushes as the salesman opens the convertible top on a $17,300 red Sunbird. She settles into the driver's seat and her eyes gleam with fantasies of the open road. As her mother and the salesman discuss water leaks in convertible tops, Heather says crisply, "Let's talk price." With trade-in and rebate, the Sunbird will...
...Rourke is your typical white-bread, middle-class suburban kid from Toledo. His father, a car salesman, died when O'Rourke was nine and left his mother, who later went to work as a school secretary, with very little. She remarried, and O'Rourke detested her new husband. "I was a fairly unhappy kid with a very active fantasy life," he remembers. He left home in high school, then returned for a short time before studying English at Miami University in Ohio. He recently married 26-year-old Amy Lumet, daughter of film director Sidney Lumet and also Lena Horne...
HARVARD'S undergraduate education is a mess. As undergraduates, this bothers us quite a lot. Once again, the primary obstacle may be University attitudes--especially the attitudes at the top. To undergraduates, as to Arthur Miller's ill-fated salesman, attention must be paid...