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...other people's publications, Stone decided he'd been "carrying on a soliloquy inside a telephone booth." He tired of researching news that city editors wouldn't print. He yearned for a job that wouldn't ask him to soften his view, to be a promoter or a salesman; a job in which he would be totally responsible for all his misdeeds. He longed to be a guerrilla warrior. But offering a "good left opposition" inside the New Deal was a thing of the remote past; by the Haunted Fifties, America's left hand shrunk like a fried bacon strip...
...last fall, Railroad Switchman Lyman Mintkenbaugh of Castro Valley, Calif., got a call from his brother James, 46, an Arlington, Va., real estate salesman who had recently come West and moved into a mountain retreat at Arnold, Calif...
...Mentality. No longer a monolithic organization, the Klan today consists of several ragtag independent groups, the best known of which is the United Klans of America, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, Inc., headquartered in Tuscaloosa, Ala., with an ex-tire salesman named Robert Shelton as its Imperial Wizard. Estimates of Klan strength range from 10,000 to 40,000 members, many of whom for some peculiar reason seem to be rural service-station attendants. Most members, in any case, are deluded rednecks whose only skill is sharpshooting. That the FBI has infiltrated deeply into their ranks is indicated...
...Salesman to Labor. The Pennsylvania's Stuart Saunders would become chief executive of the new road, and its hopeful future rests on his astute management. A onetime railroad lawyer (Harvard Law '34), Saunders restored the Norfolk & Western to health as its president, was brought over to parent Pennsy in 1963. He has traveled up to 5,000 miles a week by plane and private railroad car, personally calling on coal and grain shippers to push the idea of "unitized" trains to haul their shipments faster and more cheaply...
...people will be soured on their President. "If he sells every legislative proposal hard and oversells many of them, he may fairly soon provoke public disillusionment and disbelief." Shannon, who-in the company of other liberal commentators-used to fault John Kennedy for not being enough of a salesman, has apparently decided that supersales-manship has its perils...