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Both British management and successive governments are to blame for not pumping enough of the right kind of investment into industry to modernize it or, in spite of all the export campaigns, for not really getting out and hard-selling British goods. The job of salesman holds little status in Britain and, for that matter, business itself still tends to be looked down upon as the domain of the hustling parvenu or the disdainful "gentleman amateur...
...fact of ex-priests in their midst; many of the defectors remain on good terms with friends still in clerical ranks. Nonetheless, former priests generally prefer anonymity and seek to avoid publicizing their ecclesiastical background. Says one former priest from the Midwest, who now is a Boston textbook salesman: "On the whole I have met with very little hostility-but then I don't tell everyone I meet, 'Guess what? I used to be a priest...
Married. Margaret Smith, 25, strapping queen of Australian tennis (twice Wimbledon winner, seven times Aussie national champion); and Barry Court, 26, real estate salesman; in Perth...
...General"-as old Reservist Sarnoff has been known at RCA ever since he was given a World War II promotion to brigadier general-has interested himself in his son's career. But Bob had to work his way up, starting 19 years ago as a TV time salesman for the NBC network, an RCA subsidiary...
Showing off his team in G.M.'s Manhattan headquarters, Roche promised the "continuation of an effective, hardhitting group." And he made it clear that ebullient Engineer-Salesman Ed Cole was expected to be the hardest hitter...