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...Viet Nam War, quoted Ginsberg: "There is no longer any hope for the salvation of America." Rich somberly accepted her award on behalf of "all the women whose voices have gone and still go unheard in a patriarchal world." Obviously eager to put the proceedings into proper perspective, a salesman for the University of California Press streaked in front of the stage, shouting, "Read books, read books!" · The Watergate sleuths of the Washington Post, Carl Bernstein, 30, and Bob Woodward, 30, received a $55,000 advance from Simon & Schuster in early 1973 for their account of the scandal. After...
...year later he became station manager, after another year, station supervisor, then general salesman, district manager, division manager and on upward in the corporate hierarchy of what was to become America's second largest oil company. By 1961, he was president and chairman of the board...
...captors are Adam, a lust-crazed young writer (wearing, as writers will, "a worn gray cord jacket" and "tight blue knit slacks") and three accomplices, just "ordinary, average men" says Wallace, who naturally turn into "savages bent on satisfying their immediate appetites." Howard Yost, a beefy failed insurance salesman, and Leo Brunner, a mousy, feverish little accountant, are ordinary indeed, but Kyle Shiveley, a psychopathic My Lai veteran with "thin lips" and "cold slate-colored eyes," not to mention his "horrendous apparatus," is hardly the guy next door...
When a husband and wife in the market for a new car select the model they like and step into an auto salesman's conference room, a curious form of commercial ritual begins: haggling over the price. An alert salesman senses the moment of truth when prospective buyers wish to be alone to discuss the price, and he discreetly leaves the room. The FBI, in raids on two suburban Baltimore dealerships, has discovered that such private dickering is sometimes not so private. In at least two Maryland dealerships, unsuspecting buyers have talked about their bottom-line position in illegally...
...raided dealerships customarily carried off the ruse with alarming ease: a salesman would step outside at the propitious moment, listen at a monitoring panel in a nearby office until his customers arrived at the figure they could afford, then return to clinch the deal. Several Maryland electronics-company salesmen have said that the practice is widespread. One firm has in stalled in auto dealerships throughout the state at least 100 intercom systems that can easily be converted into bugs...