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...well aware of the consequences should their new models be viewed unkindly by the public. Product-Planning Chief Hal Sperlich is both cautious and cocky. "We are heading for an encounter of the third kind that can have tremendous consequences for us," he admits. Then comes the characteristic salesman's caveat. "Chrysler is the last of the big three to build a small car, and as my colleagues at Ford used to say, 'Last in, best dressed.' " Maybe. First sales results will be available in February, and if they are good, the industry's drive...
...Cambridge, Mass., played every Saturday by members of M.I.T.'s Strategic Games Society, has gone on since spring and search teams have explored only three levels of the labyrinth cooked up by Dungeon Master Bob Ruppert. It took Ruppert, who in his less real life is an insurance salesman, an entire year to perfect his dungeon. "It's a lot of work being the dungeon master," he says, "and you have to play all the monsters, too. I like to give them a lot of style...
Cooking can be a kind of therapy. Says Harvard Economist David Segal, 38: "I find cooking absolutely relaxing, totally absorbing and also extremely satisfying." Even some of the most ambitious cooks manage to assemble banquets without nerves. Ambrose Flaherty, 46, an advertising salesman for the Boston Globe, likes to prepare huge, rich meals for his family and friends. But, he maintains, "it's pure recreation. It's a great outlet for my energy and, besides, we're very gregarious." One recent feast for ten chez Flaherty featured roast suckling pig, stuffed goose, boiled lobsters, marinated mushrooms and Karen Flaherty...
...Rocky's South Philadelphia-Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, an Italian-American enclave where working-class kids slave all week so that they can dress up and boogie on Saturday nights. Norman Wexler's screenplay focuses on the best dancer in the community, Tony Manero (Travolta), a paint-store salesman who still lives with his smothering family. Tony is ignorant of the world, narcissistic and, except on the dance floor, aimless. The film's story is about his tumultuous romance with another good dancer (Karen Lynn Gorney), a socially ambitious Manhattan secretary who teaches him that there is more...
...busy executive may, in the course of a day, have to put in a call or write to city hall in San Francisco. Or, on behalf of an errant salesman, reach a bail-bond outfit in Buffalo. Or a Toledo TV station. Or the Manufactured Housing Institute. Or HEW in Atlanta, or EPA in Boston, or a bus terminal in Minneapolis...