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...vodka, and had acquired six others for a foreign-made gas lighter. When he was arrested, he had a stock of 400 icons and had bought two autos from the profits. Selling the icons also calls for ingenuity; one black marketeer recruited a plumber as a door-to-door salesman, since his job took him into Moscow's best apartment blocks...
...Bates has any critics, either personal or professional, it is hard to find them. He is the son of musical parents; his mother was a piano teacher and his father was a professional cellist who gave up art to turn insurance salesman. Bates was only eleven when he decided that he would go on the stage. In school in the Midlands and ever since, he has worked at his profession energetically but not flamboyantly. After six months in repertory in Coventry, he took a job at the Royal Court Theater in London, then landed in John Osborne's Look...
Gary, the chairman-designate, joined the company in 1948 as a salesman in Los Angeles after he was graduated from u.C.L.A. He became a vice president in 1966 and succeeded Learson as president last year. So far, no one has been named to replace Cary in the presidency. Likely contenders include two men from IBM World Trade Corp., the overseas arm that accounted for half of the parent firm's profits last year. They are Gilbert E. Jones, the Trade Corp.'s chief executive, who will move up into the Corporate Office on Jan. 1, and Jacques...
With two other friends--Drew Ballinger, a bottling company president who represents everything good about suburban life (a moral and compassionate individualism), and Bobby Trippe, a salesman, who does just about the opposite--Medlock and Gentry take on their state's largest, toughest river in canoes. The Cahulawassee is about to be dammed up, made into Lake Cabula for the economic sake of marinas and retirement homes. Medlock wants to move as one with this unbridled piece of nature before its force is shattered...
...farmers are up in arms over the huge profits in the Soviet grain sale that went to big grain exporting firms rather than to them (see THE NATION). But the fact remains that President Nixon went out of his way to become the nation's No. 1 wheat salesman during his trips abroad. "The Soviet grain deal was good for the farmers," says Don Paarlberg, the Agriculture Department's economic director. "It increased prices, reduced stocks and made possible an increased opportunity to grow wheat...