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Most important of all to him and to his nation, a marked majority of his countrymen support his Viet Nam policies. Says a Roanoke, Va., hardware salesman: "It's ticklish and explosive, and he's handling it smart." An Indianapolis school principal says, "He's right in Viet Nam; the strongest nation must act like the strongest." Says a La Mirada, Calif., housewife, "That war's been forced on us, but he's been right...
...three checks were made out to a San Francisco real estate salesman named Frank H. Graves Jr. Soon after Graves cashed them, police asked him to demonstrate his handwriting. Then he was arrested for forging all three checks in the names of fictitious persons. He was not advised of his rights to counsel and silence; nor was he told of his rights later when the police requested nine more samples of his writing-the clinching evidence that convicted...
...Carpet. For Myer Schine, who is so secretive that he does not even disclose his age (73), the sale topped an acquisitive career that began when he was 26. With savings from jobs as candy butcher and dress salesman, he bought a roller rink in Gloversville, N.Y., parlayed the profits into a chain of properties. Many real estate insiders speculated last week that the aging Schine sold out because he was hard-pressed to find successors as sharp as himself within his immediate family...
After more than six months in the most dispiriting of top U.S. political offices, Hubert Horatio Humphrey appears to be more full of spirit than ever. As salesman for the Great Society, the Vice President of the U.S. roams the countryside with his gift of gab and his sunburst smile; the people seem to love it, and he certainly does...
...miles across the Libyan Desert to the remote Siwa Oasis, site of Roman temple ruins and the classical oracle of Jupiter Ammon, consulted by Alexander the Great. It was to be a week-long vacation. The group included Gunther Wanderscheck, Reinhold Rimm, and Hans Hauser, together with Cairo Salesman Klaus Böhm, and his wife Gudrun. They took two Volkswagens, a sedan and a Micro Bus, and Gudrun, who took along her camera, snapped the others clowning about before they all left...