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...this Utopia all sexual partners give themselves freely out of love for one another. But even if such an ideal state really existed, would it be fair to condemn anyone who failed to live up to the ideal? To condemn, that is, the soldier far from home, the traveling salesman, the frightened student, and the old and the ugly and the neurotic-all the victims of circumstance or life's perversities? Prostitution at best makes no pretense of being a substitute for a happy marriage, but is simply an escape from loneliness and misery or a relief for concupiscence...
...some it did just that: Di Suvero became an inspirational figure to a circle of young artists who admired not only the vigor of his work, but also his tenacious will power. His background was both exotic and practical. Son of an Italian gunboat captain and steel salesman in China, he was born in Shanghai in 1933 and came to the U.S. when he was eight. Significantly for the sculpture he was later to make, he even worked as a boatbuilder on the West Coast. An elevator accident crushed his spine and nearly killed him in 1960, but though doctors...
...division chief. Among other things, he supervised new styling changes before moving to a higher job. The present general manager, Ben Bidwell, 43, took the post 16 months ago and has proved to be an equally forceful executive. A dark, quick-smiling man who started as a Ford salesman in Boston in 1953, Bidwell usually works in shirtsleeves, tie at half mast. He played baseball at the Babson Institute of Business Administration, still looks like an athlete and talks in the competitive manner of a coach. Sometimes he sounds perilously similar to Pat O'Brien asking the team...
Meanwhile, everybody is looking for a bargain. Moderately priced clothing, much of it imported from Taiwan or Spain, has become a major source of sales, particularly in wash-and-wear materials, which eliminate soaring costs of professional laundering and dry cleaning. "But," says Doug Middlebrook, a salesman at Mr. Guy, a Beverly Hills men's shop, "these days customers always ask the price before deciding...
...arrive in town, duffers stand ten deep to see how Casper cocks his elbow on the backswing or Player plants his feet for an uphill lie. Since an average of 10 million viewers watch the weekend tournaments on TV, today's pro golfer must be part showman and part salesman for one of the fastest-growing sports in the U.S. No one is more aware of that fact than Lee Trevino: "You won't catch me criticizing a gallery. I don't care if they scream their heads off, because they pay my way out here...