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DIED. Edward Ball, 93, for 46 years the shrewd, autocratic chief trustee of the $2 billion Alfred I. du Pont Trust, one of the nation's largest financial empires; of complications from an abdominal aneurysm; in New Orleans. A school dropout at 13, Ball was working as a salesman on the West Coast when Alfred du Pont, having married Ball's sister in 1921, hired him to run a Du Pont-owned tomato-canning plant. After Du Font's death in 1935, Ball took over the management of his estate, enlarging it to include...
...This week he plans to make speeches on behalf of his budget alternative in San Antonio and Los Angeles. His aides are also considering a national media campaign of commercials, paid for by the Republican National Committee, and perhaps a televised speech by the Administration's No. 1 salesman...
Koch may not have time for history, but he would like to make history, and there is a good chance that he will. History, in turn, has made him?the immigrant boy, the shoe salesman, the Stevensonian, civil rights-defending liberal Democrat "mugged by reality" in Editor Irving Kristol's phrase, until eventually he became the most recognizable kind of figure in modern American politics: the neoconservative, the crypto-Republican, the Tough-Man Entrepreneur
...felt the time had come to prepare for possible battle, and three Southern Democrats, considered potential allies, were invited to the White House late last week. Plans were also made for a $4 million media campaign financed by the Republican National Committee, featuring the Oval Office's best salesman. Reagan was ready to fight. At a Cabinet meeting, Regan told him: "If this thing doesn't work out with Rostenkowski, you may have to go to work on Congress like you did on the bipartisan budget bill." Smiling, the President replied: "Order up the cufflinks...
...buses, the latest transistor toy is the portable stereo cassette player. Weighing less than a pound and smaller than a paperback book, it has feather-light earphones that transmit sound of concert-hall clarity directly to the brain of the wearer, without bothering anyone near by. As Detroit Audio Salesman Thomas Badoud puts it, "These babies are unreal...