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...BELIEVE MUSKIE," the campaign buttons proclaim. "Trust Muskie," read the bumper stickers. Indeed, in a campaign almost totally devoid of real debate over issues, the central theme Senator Edmund Muskie and his staff are striking is that Muskie is honest and can be trusted, no used-car salesman is this "man from Maine." Yet in the final 36 hours before the polls opened in New Hampshire last week. Muskie and his staff were involved in four separate but related incidents of deceit that transformed the placid New Hampshire campaign into a cesspool of low blows and innuendos. Three of these...
...Deacon, now 59 and a Cadillac salesman in Rochester, N.Y., competed in his first world pocket-billiards championship match in 1937 and finished second to Ralph Greenleaf, the best pool player ever. Crane went on to win the world title five times between 1942 and 1970; he would have done even better if Willie Mosconi, probably the alltime second-best player, had not become his nemesis...
...flight of whites to the suburbs, which intensified when busing first started in Richmond in 1970, is now spreading beyond Henrico and Chesterfield counties. Says one real estate salesman in semi-rural Hanover County: "I can no longer measure the market because I've sold everything under roof." The area's private schools, already numbering more than 40 with two more scheduled to open this fall, have expansion plans for handling the expected boom in enrollment. Roman Catholic Bishop John J. Russell, meanwhile, has let it be known that parents of prospective students for the area...
...invested $100 million in out-of-state recreational housing last year, several hundred new property owners sought help from the attorney general's Consumer Protection Agency. "A lot of these people who buy go up for a look at their lot," says Chief Investigator Mike McGrath, "and the salesman tells them 'Your place will be on the 17th hole of the golf course.' He's told 15 other people that the same day. Someone's going to lose." An aggrieved Bay Stater can complain to McGrath, who can investigate and, if necessary, take a company...
...rely on anything a salesman tells you about planned tennis courts, golf courses, marinas, etc. Such features have a way of being delayed...