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...Mission: Impossible and André Kostelanetz. She professes to a belief that "positive thinking is the key to success," and she confesses to "a burning desire to set up housekeeping and start having babies." But patio parties and the P.T.A. will have to wait. For Carol is a traveling salesman's daughter, and she took up golf at eleven because "I only got to see my father on weekends; since he was a golfer I figured this would be a good way to be with...
Died. Albert Dekker, 62, seasoned character actor who appeared in more than 25 films (Two Years Before the Mast; Suddenly, Last Summer) and numerous Broadway plays (Death of a Salesman, A Man for All Seasons); by accidental strangulation; in Hollywood. An outspoken and intensely serious professional, Dekker once labeled the stage "a horrible place in which to make a living," yet continued to excel as the craggy, dark-voiced heavy whose villainy always seemed convincingly human...
Penchant for Pennies. American Home has grown faster than ever under William F. Laporte, 54, a somewhat shy and self-effacing salesman who succeeded Brush as board chairman in 1965. Son of a Passaic, N.J., banker who was a longtime friend of Brush, Laporte became an American Home sales trainee in 1938, after graduating from Princeton and Harvard Business School. Under his leadership, American Home has stepped up diversification. In 1965, the company bought Chicago-based Ekco Products Inc. for $145 million, thus became the world's biggest maker of pots, pans and other kitchen utensils. Then it outmaneuvered...
...Parties. The suit was filed by a New York wholesale shoe salesman named Morton Eisen, who felt that he had been charged excessive brokerage fees for odd lots (less than 100 shares) of stock he had bought and sold. Nearly 99% of all U.S. odd-lot transactions go through two Wall Street firms, so Eisen had a convenient target for his suit. The firms were also vulnerable because the Securities and Exchange Commission had disclosed in 1963 that their virtual monopoly on odd-lot trading had led to abuses. Claiming that the abuses amounted to illegal price fixing, Eisen sued...
...HAVE the same feeling about gold that I get when I read the society pages," said Los Angeles Drug Salesman Peter Davis, 28, last week. "What goes on in high society has no effect on my life-and that's the way it is with gold." Well, that is not quite right. And though the precise effects of the recent gold crisis upon Davis and millions of other Americans remain speculative, one thing is certain: the whole business is going to hit where it hurts...