Word: salesman
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...dedication to building a spread outa nothin, they're willing to get up before dawn and go do it. But if they cain't get a shot at a place like that of their own, they'll cross over the line and enter the world of the car salesman. But they won't like it. They don't like advertising people, public relations men. They're still tied to the land...
...campaign aides, an insurance salesman named Seymour Terry, the sort of nuts-and-bolts politico New York newspapers generally label "a veteran of the West Side political wars," started Beame's administration off with a bang. Terry sent a letter to his insurance customers informing them that his new position as the city's director of special programs would undoubtedly mean "even greater benefits" for them than they'd had in the past. When The New York Times published the letter, Terry acknowledged that it had been poorly worded. Beame asked Terry to resign. That was only the beginning...
Motorists asked Derwinski if the price of gasoline would really climb 200 per gal., as the papers were saying. Over coffee, Steel Salesman Tom Erdmann wanted to know: "What are we going to do? I drive 30,000 miles a year." A school official wondered how many buses he would be able to keep running. And everyone was worried about rationing...
...Actor Robert Morley, British Airways' exuberant television salesman of England's illimitable charms ("We'll take good care of you"), wryly advised his countrymen to enjoy the shortened work week while it lasts. "For years now, the planners have been assuring us that before long a man would not be required to work more than two or three days a week," Morley wrote in a letter to the London Times. "Now that this blissful state of affairs has arrived, no one seems to relish the fact. Everyone sits around working out on used envelopes how much less...
...lunge toward their nubile prey. The ratio of men to women seems to be nearly 50-50 at this point, ensuring-at least in theory-that no one will leave alone. But as couples drift off into the darkness, the games have only begun. Gripes Jeff Erikson, a TV salesman from Minneapolis: "Some chicks come here to be hustled, others to fall in love. It would help if they wore different signs...