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Rune Borg, a salesman at a men's clothing store in Sodertalje, a suburb of Stockholm, was an accomplished amateur table-tennis player in the 1960s. He cannot remember the name of his opponent in the finals of a tournament the summer his son was nine, but that victory introduced Bjorn Borg to tennis. An only child...
...Carter talked to an ad salesman on the Los Angeles Times a few weeks ago, he might have known that there were fewer Help Wanted ads, a sure sign of economic stress. Had he stopped in Blair, Neb. (pop. 6,300), the people who live along the highway could have tipped him off that because of soaring gas prices, auto traffic was way down. Had his family stayed at the Holiday Inn outside New York's Kennedy Airport, he could have got the message from travelers having to pay $58.32 a night, a message that sounded slightly different when...
Consumers will be looking hard for value as the economy continues to slow down. Says Chicago Car Salesman José Lescano, 29: "I buy good quality, but I shop carefully." Lescano now buys $25 shirts for $8 at a local discount center, and he and his wife Marie have cut up all their credit cards and eliminated restaurant meals...
...smaller scale, the DOE is financing many other ideas, like the proposal submitted by Robert Jones, 43, a Los Angeles salesman of kitchen exhaust systems. He received $8,000 last year to help finance his idea for using the hot air coming off cooking ranges rather than simply pumping it out the exhaust fan. With the money, he built a prototype "hydro-coil" that gathers the heat in radiator-type fins and recycles it to heat other rooms in the house and the water system. Gas bills dropped 15% to 20% during testing, and Jones has interested a national restaurant...
...when Harvard men of other years would have headed for the open path to success, the class of '30 found itself roadblocked by the Depression. Not surprisingly, these men often took whatever jobs they could get: Cameron Blaikie Jr. '30 reports positions as an apprentice iron worker, salesman for a chimney-cleaning oufit, bill collector, and finally a railroad...