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...worth $8.1 million. A few hours after the sale was completed, Barnhart, 40, accompanied by a yacht salesman, drove his red Ferrari off the road in Los Gatos, Calif., and was killed. An autopsy showed that he was legally drunk at the time of the accident...
DIED. Ray Kroc, 81, founder of golden-arched McDonald's Corp. (1982 sales: $7.8 billion) and owner of baseball's San Diego Padres; of heart failure; in San Diego. Kroc, a milkshake-machine salesman, bought franchise rights to a California burger stand called McDonald's and in 1955 launched a fast-food empire that now numbers 7,000 restaurants worldwide...
...Irving is a shoe salesman with only one thing missing from life: his head...
...Xingjian's Bus Stop presented a story about eight people awaiting a bus that never arrives. Conspicuously absent were all the trappings of conventional Chinese drama: plot, moral and exhortation. Meanwhile, thousands of citizens were flocking to a production of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, directed by Miller himself at Peking's prestigious Capital Theater. The spectators sympathized so warmly with Bourgeois Protagonist Willy Loman that many left the theater in tears...
...against one another in the lotteries for most tracts, and in at least one case, two-thirds of the competitors were clients of U.S. Oil and Gas. Of each $8,784 investment that the company took in, $3,600 was used for Government filing fees, $1,600 was the salesman's commission, and the remaining $3,584 went...