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...first one in these Games and in the history of China was won by pistol-shooting Xu Haifeng, a fertilizer salesman recruited just three years ago on his rustic reputation for being handy with a slingshot. Throughout the week, the Chinese dominated the weight lifting, a Bulgarian and Soviet preserve, occasionally spicing the entertainment with wonderful backflips. From the top stand, Gold Medal Featherweight Chen WeiQuiang reached down and vigorously pumped the hand of Bronze Medalist Tsai Wen-Yee of Chinese Taipei, or Taiwan. "We are all Chinese" was the translation for both...
...blockbuster novel, short-story writers have had a hard time supporting their habit. While Novelists John Updike and Saul Bellow can afford occasional forays into the briefer forms, a hard-bitten short-story adept like Stephen Dixon, 48, has had to toil as a bartender, waiter and pajama salesman to pay for the privilege of persisting in an unprofitable genre. But a boomlet in short fiction seems to be at hand. Publishers are wagering in increasing numbers that storytellers can attract readers beyond the pages of the little magazines...
Death of a salesman...
Perot, a former IBM salesman, formed EDS with an investment of $1,000. The company grew rapidly, largely by processing health-insurance claims...
...Shamie's a salesman he'll tell you that him-self." Said State Rep. Forrester A. Clark, Jr. '58 (R-Hamilton). "He has a very open style he's an easy-to-communicate-with person. Richardson tends to be a little more distant than the average politician; he never tries to be the hail-fellow-well...