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Pepsi has shown lots of sparkle in the 17 months it has been bossed by Kendall, a onetime fountain-syrup salesman. Last spring he introduced Diet Pepsi, which has since captured more than one-quarter of the low-calorie-cola market. He also bought a West Virginia firm that makes Mountain Dew, sugar-rich citrus soda whose slogan is "It tickles yore innards." Mountain Dew sales are up 150% since September...
First in Johannesburg, and then the Rhodesias, Sigauke took jobs, from busboy to boxer, until he finally landed a well-paying position as a traveling salesman, peddling clothing to retailers all over Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland. "That job brought status because I owned a car," he says. "I drove an Opel and then a Biscayne for two years, and I learned to know every road and every Mozambican in the Rhodesias." On one return trip to Mozambique he was arrested by the authorities, who could not believe that an African could earn enough money...
Cast as the native villain was Farhan Attassi, 36, a Syrian-born but naturalized U.S. citizen with an American wife and until lately a local salesman of American TV films. The brain was said to be Walter Snowdon, second secretary of the U.S. embassy in Damascus. Hauled before a military court-the proceedings were televised to the accompaniment of John Philip Sousa marches-Attassi testified that "Snow don kept talking about how bad Communism was and wondered if I would help him do something." One night the Snowdons invited the Attassis to dinner. Said Attassi: "As our wives were taking...
Parading Lions. After the abortive suicide, the gawky adolescent girl was sent to a boarding school in Manhattan, where she soon met and married Louis Untermeyer, the brother of a schoolmate. Louis was then working as a salesman for his father's jewelry firm, but like Jean, he dreamed of escaping from Philistia to Bohemia. Both succeeded, Louis becoming an anthologist, poet, critic, and a man of many marriages-five in all, two of them to Jean. She plunged into music, poetry and the keeping of a salon, where she paraded such lions as Robert Frost and Edna...
Surprisingly, the trattoria prospers, bringing unexpected fringe benefits. Signoret finds that she can still feel prudish about free love with a ne'er-do-well used-car salesman (Marcello Mastroianni). A neurotic colleague (Emmanuelle Riva) brings her son home to live for the first time. Another girl (Gina Rovere) meets a local construction man willing to help her build a new life. Then, inescapably, the past looms up to destroy all hope for a better future...