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...friendly setting: a town meeting at New York City's Queens College. It was the kind of meet-the-voter outing that he so enjoys and that usually produces nothing more than a picnic of calm discussion about unstormy subjects. But midway through the proceedings, Fred Feingold, a salesman from Hollis Hills, wanted to know whether there would be a danger of another Cuban missile crisis "if nothing works and the [Soviet] troops just stay" in Cuba. The President's reply: "We are now trying through diplomacy to get the Soviets to eliminate the combat nature of this...
Miller said the myth of the "American Dream," which was the theme of his play, "Death of a Salesman," existed even in China. "It's everywhere, but we invented it," he said...
...size company in Germany earns 50% more than his U.S. counterpart, 40% more in Belgium and The Netherlands, and 20% more in France. Business International, a Geneva research firm, notes that in Switzerland today, a receptionist now gets $19,700 a year, an executive secretary $27,000 and a salesman...
...merely good business. Yet during the past year he has taken out full-page ads in the New York Times, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal to reprint some notable Los Angeles Times stories and demonstrate his newspaper's quality. "I'm trying to be a salesman for the West Coast," says Chandler. "We do not yet receive the recognition that...
...supporters were feasting at a dinner, Brown's cohorts, known as "the dirty dozen," collected legislators' signatures on a petition that changed the house's voting rules and enabled Brown to call for an immediate vote that gave him the gavel. Since then the Republican, a former insurance salesman from Daytona Beach, has reformed the ramshackle procedures of the house, cut school taxes and held down property taxes. Brown, who stands for efficiency and economy...