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...house busted in south-central Los Angeles looked perfectly innocuous on the outside: a white stucco duplex with a neatly trimmed lawn. Inside, a hallway leading to a bedroom had been walled off. Behind the barrier, a surveillance camera was trained on customers in the living room. The drug salesman, sitting in a kitchen equipped with three telephones and a box full of cash, remained unseen behind a fortified door but was able to monitor the outer room via closed-circuit TV. Buyers spoke to the seller through an intercom. Money and drugs were passed through a tiny opening...
Kampelman the Democrat is out of the Henry ("Scoop") Jackson mold: like the late Washington Senator, he favors liberal social policies while taking a hawkish stance on national defense. He was not always so promilitary. The son of a hat salesman in the Bronx, Kampelman had graduated from New York University and was working his way through law school when he was drafted in 1942. A Jew, he cited religious reasons in declaring himself a conscientious objector. Says he: "I just couldn't see myself killing anyone." Rather than fight, he volunteered for alternative service in a program...
...chance to percolate and come to a conclusion intuitively can delay any important decision until the time for action expires," he says. That is "substituting study for courage." He advises executives not to fret about their lack of experience. Rowan recalls that King Gillette was a bottle-cap salesman when he dreamed up the safety razor. Concludes Rowan: "Inexperience may make us more daring...
...clamor began in January, after Katahn discussed his program in media interviews. Lectures by the professor, expected to draw 80 registrants, were stampeded by 1,400. At Vanderbilt, telephone operators were swamped. Some 25,000 requests for brochures on the diet arrived by mail within three weeks. A natural salesman, Katahn seized the opportunity to turn personal frenzy into a community mania and launched the "Melt-a-Million" campaign in mid- February...
...underline the law's value, civil RICO proponents point to cases like that of Barney and Donna Millsaps. Six years ago, a door-to-door salesman talked them into adding a room to their home in Norfolk, Va., assuring them loan payments would amount to no more than $50 a month. Instead, they wound up with a second mortgage and monthly payments of $148 for 15 years, a burden that strained their modest income until, less than a year later, they had lost their house. But the Millsapses along with eight other families that were hustled in the same scheme...