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...Iacocca is generally considered Detroit's No. 1 salesman. Now Moro Cigar Co., one of the distributors of Don Diego cigars, which are made in the Dominican Republic, has picked the Chrysler chairman as the face to launch thousands of shipments of a new line- of cigars...
...they may sport a dent or two. (Avis' shiny, new-model cars, by comparison, can cost up to $64 a day in some cities.) Rent-A-Wreck has 120 franchised outlets nationwide, and is adding two a week. Says Founder Dave Schwartz, a former Los Angeles used-car salesman: "You drive a used car at home. The only difference is that ours are a little more used." And a lot more cheap...
...turned it down after deciding the college squad took football too seriously: "They were all 275-lb. Mean Joe Greene types." Instead, Mike turned to speedboating. He was married, and divorced, in less than a year, and meandered - working briefly as a trucker's assistant - before becoming a salesman of yachts and other pleasure craft in 1971. Last year he started a firm that markets gasohol equipment for farmers. More recently, Mike has become a stockholding senior vice president of the Southern Pacific Title Co., a Santa Ana firm that sells real estate title insurance, and is now negotiating...
...side took over completely. On Oct. 23 he quit his job, signing out in the logbook, John Lennon. Four days later he walked into J and S Sales, a gun shop just a block from the main Honolulu police station. Because he had no arrest record, a salesman sold him a Charter Arms .38-cal. revolver (price: $169). "It's the type used by detectives and plainclothes police because it is easy to conceal," explains Steve Grahovac, the store's owner...
...coach in Wrightsville could set off a small panic. When a man named John Robinson checked into a hotel in nearby Macon, local newspapers announced with alarm that the University of Southern California's coach had come to cart Walker away. John Robinson turned out to be a salesman from Huntsville...