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About Charles Ives. Ives seems like a pretty complex character--an insurance salesman who felt his work helped him "dig a little in real life," and a musician who celebrated in his works such diverse aspects of Americana as the transcend-entalists and the first and second world wars. He admired Emerson and once wrote that he "plunges to all roots at once." And it seems like maybe a profile of Ives could do the same thing, only the roots may be nearer the surface and the plunge could hurt if the profile is well done...
...just next door is Jacques Brel, a shirt salesman whose wife has run off with her psychiatrist. Woebegone even at the best of times, the salesman is having one of his worse days. He decides to commit suicide. Of course, he bungles the job. He bungles everything. His suicidal impulses impinge on Ventura's concentration, eventually even threaten his mission...
Lost Evidence. In June a maintenance man notified the FBI's Richmond office that he had discovered a wiretapping device on the telephone line of Jamil Ramaden, a radio salesman of Palestinian ancestry. The device turned out to belong to the Richmond police department, which had not bothered to get a court order. (The reasons for the tap have never been disclosed.) Even so, Assistant U.S. Attorney G. Rodney Sager decided not to prosecute the case after he was told that there was no proof that the tap had ever been used. The agents returned the equipment...
Public Debut. Japanese police believe the Kuala Lumpur attack was masterminded by Fusako Shigenobu, 29, the daughter of an insurance salesman, who is suspected of being the Red Army's leader. The Red Army, numbering about 30 and dedicated to violent revolution, made its public debut in March 1970, when nine members hijacked a Japan Air Lines jet to Pyongyang, North Korea. Two years later, just before the Lod Airport massacre, authorities uncovered the bodies of 14 young men and women on remote Mount Haruna, 70 miles northwest of Tokyo. The 14, who had been tortured and left...
Bruce sure hopes so. "I need only one hit and I'm home free," he reasons. This year should be his. He has landed three major roles, including the Hitchcock film. He can be seen currently as Big Bob Freedlander, the Jaycee mobile-home salesman in Smile, a comedy manqué about a teen-age beauty contest. Next month, he starts work on Won Ton Ton, a farce about the 1920's legendary wonder dog, Rin Tin Tin, in which he plays an old-line Hollywood director. But keeping busy is not the only answer. Says Agent Freddie...