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quickly." In Southern California, the customer can range from movie star to parking-lot attendant, from Orange County salesman to Beverly Hills housewife. For obvious reasons, the users in the entertainment industry win the most publicity, especially when something goes tragically wrong. Comedian John Belushi, who died at 33 last March of an overdose of cocaine and heroin, got the headlines. But the use of coke reaches into all cash-rich occupations...
From his home in suburban St. Louis, not far from Mark Twain's Mississippi River, Stanley Elkin once remarked that "the consummate salesman also needs a customer who doesn't want to buy." He was talking about inspiration and performance, the challenge of turning accessory into necessity. He was also offering a fragment of autobiography...
...money and local roots old and deep enough to prompt invitations to the oligarchs' parties and all the charity balls. Then there are the grounds for the divorce action. So far Pulitzer or his witnesses have testified that Roxanne, 31, went to bed with a local real estate salesman, a French baker, a Belgian race-car driver, the beautiful young wife of a handsome old Kleenex heir, an alleged drug dealer and a supernatural trumpet. That's right, trumpet. There are charges of drug use. And menages a trois. And incest. And death threats. "It doesn...
...Corral, president of the Juárez Chamber of Commerce, who is futilely struggling to persuade Americans to keep buying below the border. Indeed, the uncertainty has been the main factor keeping Americans from shopping for much of anything in Mexico. "The tourists are scared away," says Salesman Manuel Vasquez, surveying his empty marble-products shop in Juárez, which logically should be packed with Texans seeking more for their dollar. "Our business is off about 50%. Capitalism works. This type of stupid socialism doesn...
...fights for the 29th Middlesex House seat, Peter A. Vellucci, a local insurance salesman, crushed 16-year incumbent Michael Lombardi, with 67 percent of the vote. In the Middlesex County District Attorney' contest, L. Scott Harshburger '64 unseated 23-year incumbent John J. Droney, taking nearly half the votes in a four-man race, And Sen. George Bachrach successfully defended the Middlesex and Suffolk seat he won two years ago, winning a clear majority against three challengers...