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...made the last payment on the house I today," cries Willy Loman's widow at the conclusion of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman. "We're free and clear." Many Americans still consider owning a home a virtual birthright, as well as a necessary inflation hedge. But today people are being forced to find ingenious and complex schemes to beat the high cost of achieving Loman's dream...
Robot-Coupe recruited Alvin Finesman, 51 , who until 1979 had been the Cuisinart marketing director in the U.S., to lead its American offensive. Finesman, a wiry backslapper and pure salesman who at 13 peddled cigars in bars and brothels in Ohio, took up his campaign with gusto. Some early magazine ads for the French imports bore the slogan, "Robot-Coupe. It's pronounced Robo-Coop. (It used to be pronounced Cuisinart...
...spends less time in bars-and less time in fights. Martin has had his share of them. Outside a bar with one of his own players (Twins' Pitcher Dave Boswell, 1969), in a bar with a Reno sportswriter (1978), in a Bloomington, Minn., bar with a marshmallow salesman (1979), anywhere...
Lubbock, Texas, he took guitar lessons from Buddy's old teacher, a door-to-door salesman who did not need to urge Joe to duplicate the music he heard drifting through the night air from the honky-tonks. Joe did not need much encouragement to leave school either. By the time he packed it in, at 16, he was already working three to five nights a week in clubs, "making enough to reinvest in equipment...
...former prefabricated-house salesman and state legislator, Siljander made his mark by mixing politics and religion. He drew money and manpower from right-to-lifers and support from the Moral Majority-though emphasizing he was not that group's candidate-and spoke on school prayer and "the Christian's role in American government." Rodebush complained that his rivals, including two conservative candidates, had their campaign literature handed out in church bulletins...