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Opel is a quintessential product of IBM. The holder of an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago, he started out as an IBM salesman in Jefferson City, Mo., and has spent his entire 32-year career at the company. A scholarly-looking man known to his colleagues as "the Brain," Opel commands the company's work force of 341,279 employees from the firm's headquarters in Armonk...
Coke salesmen became increasingly nervous. One of them, identified only as Tin, spotted Pepsi Salesman Thongyu Meksuk putting up Pepsi posters in a small open-air restaurant on the outskirts of Khampaeng Phet, about 200 miles northwest of Bangkok. Such point-of-purchase advertising is important in Thailand, since about 96% of soft drinks are consumed where they are bought. Coke and Pepsi have long squabbled over prime space in cafés and other public places...
DIED. Edward Little, 100, former soap salesman who rose through the ranks to become chief executive in 1938 of the Colgate-Palmolive Co., one of the world's largest manufacturers of soap, detergents and toilet goods; in Memphis. After World War II, Little concentrated on expanding Colgate-Palmolive's overseas plants and operations until they accounted for half of the company's revenues. By the time he stepped down in 1960, sales totaled $600 million for such household staples as Colgate toothpaste and Ajax cleanser...
...going to move into the city," vows Bob Madden, 24, a printing company salesman who lives 24 miles from downtown in Deerfield, Ill. "I could probably afford to commute, but I've got better things to do with my money...
...offended if An American Tragedy spun off a happy shadow called An American Comedy, in which Clyde Griffiths saves his girlfriend Roberta from drowning and receives a $7.50 reward from the grateful foreman of the factory in which Roberta is considered irreplaceable? Another natural would be Life of a Salesman, in which Willy Loman, 63, invited to take early retirement by his company, finds fulfillment in the neighborhood shuffleboard league...