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...late September, the Portland Oregonian carried a syndicated column by Chicago Daily News Writer Mike Royko lambasting the average automobile salesman as a "sneaky liar" and lamenting the fact that "the cornerstone of our economy is based on double-talking, deceitful confidence men." Warming to his subject, Royko added: "No other major industry takes it for granted that we know the salesmen are lying and that they know we know they are lying. Even an alderman tries to keep up an honest front...
Detroit is gratefully naming Richard Nixon the New Car Salesman of the Year. Auto sales were strong even before he froze prices; now they are going through the roof. It is much too early to tell how well the four-week-old 1972 model year will turn out, but it is clearly off to a fast start. "It is our best introductory period in history," says Robert D. Lund, Chevrolet's general sales manager. Adds Ben Bidwell, Lincoln-Mercury general manager: "Our dealers have never seen anything like today's boom...
Connally took easily and quickly to his salesman's job on Capitol Hill. Indeed, he spent seven of his first ten days in office testifying before one congressional committee or another. He swiftly showed that he knew how to play the game. Once he began a hearing on an interest-rate bill before Wilbur Mills' House Ways and Means Committee by announcing that no compromise was possible, that the measure had to go through intact. At the hearing's end, Mills held out a compromise?and Connally snapped it up. Complimented recently on a good performance before a congressional committee...
...Veep until next year, probably after the Democratic Convention in July. Any decision that he makes will be greatly influenced by the success or failure of his daring new economic policy. And that, in turn, will depend in no small part on the performance of its chief salesman and administrator, the rising star from Texas...
...York's Metropolitan Museum of Art unblinkingly accepted a large card collection donated by Jefferson Burdick, a Syracuse ad salesman. The Burdick collection includes cards on everything from battleships to movie stars and is shown by appointment only. Says Roberta Wong, a librarian at the Met: "Each period has its representative minor art. Why shouldn't we have bubble-gum cards...