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Last week's tragedy was a personal trauma for Union Carbide Chairman Warren Anderson, who has spent 39 years at the company. A graduate of Colgate, where he was a chemistry major and a football letterman, Anderson joined Union Carbide in 1945 as a salesman and moved steadily up the ranks to the chairmanship in 1982. Employees last week admired the way he rushed to India after the accident, even though he knew that he would surely face trouble as soon as he stepped off the airplane. Anderson has been trying to give new momentum to a company that...
Born in Philadelphia to a door-to-door salesman and his English-born wife, Gloria Rachel Bloom began rebelling in college. As an English honors major at the University of Pennsylvania, she insisted, despite faculty reservations, upon doing her thesis on black Novelists James Baldwin and Ralph Ellison. She met a young man in her freshman year, married him as a sophomore, gave birth to a daughter in her junior year and got a divorce before graduating. Allred went on to earn a master's degree in English education at New York University, taught at an all-black boys...
...Yorkers, all of whom are supposed to bring him closer to uncovering the location of the mysterious actress. Lumet introduces the characters in brief cameos, but these supposedly comic sketches are disappointingly inadequate. They simply lack punch. One exception is Gilly's meeting with a lonely gay salesman on the ferry to Fire Island, where Garbo has a home. As they wander along the beach at dusk, he describes his lonely personal life. Finally, the mute lighting is perfect, providing a discrete backdrop for this sensitive scene. The scene aptly demonstrates Lumet's talent for a more serious genre...
Saudi Arabia, traditionally the leader of the group, has thrown its weight behind the strategy. A large part of the proposed cutback probably would come from that country's production. After the Geneva meeting, Saudi Oil Minister Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani became chief salesman of the plan. He jetted to Lagos at the head of a 19-member delegation and tried to persuade the Nigerians to restore their crude-oil prices. They respectfully declined. So did officials in Oslo, the next stop on Yamani's campaign. No one, though, was willing to rule out a show of unity...
...still manages to keep service on a personal level, even on Saturdays, when the store is chaotic. Customers select styles from shoes on display, but then one of Reyers' 88 salespeople is there to help with the fitting. One of them is Larry Joltin, 41, the hottest shoe salesman in America. Joltin sells nearly $500,000 worth of men's shoes a year, roughly a pair every 15 minutes. In 1982, he walked away with the National Shoe Retailers Association award. His $424,848 worth of sales put him so far ahead of everyone else that the contest...