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...Bentz's two-year tenure in the classroom has come to a sudden and inglorious end; he has been arrested in Oakland on 16 felony warrants charging, of course, white-collar crimes. Bentz, a tractor salesman, is accused of bilking purchasers and bouncing checks...
...accomplished by shortcuts. He deftly summed up this truth: "The great thing about making cognac is that it teaches you above everything else to waitman proposes, but time and God and the seasons have got to be on your side." He began his career as a globetrotting salesman for the family's distillery. Witnessing the chaos and waste of World War I convinced him of the need for international cooperation. By 1916 Monnet had become France's representative in London on the executive committees that coordinated supplies and production. A four-year stint as Deputy Secretary-General...
...anticipated Czarist pogroms and emigrated to the U.S. in 1888, he brought enough money to think about retiring. The treasure was soon lost through bad investments, but Paley's father Samuel made his own fortune manufacturing cigars. Young Bill joined the family business and quickly proved an adept salesman; one of his special delights was putting together a show called The La Palina Smoker on that new thing everybody was talking about: radio...
...spending $6 million to expand its showroom and hopes to sell 2,000 cars, up from 850 in 1978 and only 250 in 1977. "It is the In thing to own an American-made car now," explains Helmut Becker, sales manager for the firm. Adds Peter Baumgarten, a GM salesman in Munich: "West German prosperity has increased the size and price of German cars, while congested cities and autobahns have created a need for the kind of comfort European cars lack. At the same time, American cars have become more economical...
...oldest sister, sleeps with Serge's best friend because life with her rich, Anglo husband bores her to insanity. His two middle sisters lead grubby lives with their struggling lower middle class French Canadian husbands. Denise sublimates her frustration into gluttony and Monique pops pills and curses her travelling salesman husband for coming home only long enough to impregnate her. Serge's youngest sister, Nicole, sleeps with him. Meanwhile the old man and the aunts tear at each other as they sink pathetically into their graves. Everyone knows what Serge and Nicole are doing, but no one says anything...