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Last week in Indianapolis, Anthony Kiritsis, 44, a sometime car salesman who had hoped to make his fortune in real estate, was mad as hell, and he decided not to take it any more. He walked into the Meridian Mortgage Co., seized President Richard Hall, 42, wired the muzzle of a sawed-off shotgun to Hall's neck and led him into the street to begin a 63-hour odyssey of personal fury and public terror...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: I'll Have Vengeance' | 2/21/1977 | See Source »

...William C. Jamison of Lubbock, Texas, a salesman with a financial-records firm, reckoned that Carter would get "a real feel for the country just by dropping in unannounced everywhere you go. This will enable you to see the country as it really is. Otherwise it will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Jes' Write, Wire | 1/17/1977 | See Source »

...probably be the last person you'd expect to be ordained," says the informal and modest new priest, who likes to be called Jackie. Born in Peoria, Ill., to a traveling salesman and his wife, both of whom became alcoholics, she attended Catholic schools wherever her father took the family. She dropped out at 16 to marry Delton. The couple settled in Indianapolis, joined the Episcopal Church and raised four children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Father, Make Her a Priest' | 1/17/1977 | See Source »

...Says he: "We're all trying to find that little secret, but it's all in the mind." Says another pro who is disgusted by the stampede to new racquets: "People will do anything to improve their game except work on their strokes." Beverly Hills Tennis Shop Salesman Vinnie Thomas reports that most sales of the Prince are made to men over 40 searching for a tennis fountain of youth. Says Thomas: "Very few young people buy them." As for the young themselves. New Jersey Tournament Player Paul Barrett, 15, sums up: "When somebody shows up with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Those Super Racquets | 12/27/1976 | See Source »

That picture of a demure young bride-to-be is not by Bradford Bachrach but by a salesman lucky enough to have had a camera in hand when Olga Korbut tried on a wedding gown in a St. Louis suburb. The darling of the 1972 Olympics, who is on an eleven-city U.S. tour with the U.S.S.R. National Gymnastics Team, pulled out three crisp $100 bills in J.C. Penney's to buy the gown and matching veil (total: $225). Olga, 21, plans to be married back home next year. Who is the lucky guy? "Just an ordinary boy," shrugs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 20, 1976 | 12/20/1976 | See Source »

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