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Since the liens were filed, there has been some digging done into Galvin's background. It still doesn't go very deep. He was born in Hobart, Tasmania, worked as a null messenger for a time, was fired as a classified advertising salesman from a newspaper in Melbourne. Australia, because the management thought girls sold the ads better. He headed for Hong Kong to seek his fortune. He apparently found it after World War II in the vague area of "mining and transportation," it is said. He has a company in Malaya called Eastern Mining and Metals...
Robinson, a reserved and soft-spoken fellow, started out far from fashion - as a car salesman - and later moved into life insurance and real estate. Searching for investments in Europe, he was introduced to young Saint-Laurent, who had been Christian Dior's heir apparent before he was called up by the French army and lost his position at the House of Dior to Marc Bohan. Stranded at 25, he was eager to design on his own. Robinson advanced him the funds, but has stayed out of the fitting rooms. "I am completely ignorant of fashion," he says...
Endearment is hardy sufficient with the presence of Real Caouette and his French nationalist Socreds in Quebec. Caouette, a car salesman from the northern constituency of Rouyn-Noranda, is a fiery, arm-waving demagogue, who captured the votes of rural Quebec in the last general election. Of the 30 seats which Social Credit won across the nation, 26 were in Quebec. In the first weeks of the current campaign, the Caouette threat to the major parties appeared greater than ever before in Quebec. Political observers were predicting as many as 50 seats for the Socreds...
...Democratic Parties are certainly going to make obtaining a clear majority more difficult for the Liberals. Socred won 30 seats in the last election, 26 of these in the Province of Quebec. The French leader of the Ralliement des Creditistes is fiery Real Caouette, a car salesman from Rouyn-Noranda in northern Quebec. His cry to the French is, "You have nothing to lose. Try Social Credit." The appeal to French-Canadian nationalistic spirit, a Quebec-oriented anti-nuclear posture, and a "funny-money" policy will not be enough in the coming election to get Caouette the 50 seats...
...Teheran, a salesman from Lockheed Aircraft Corp. is hoping to get the signature of the Shah of Iran on a contract to buy a JetStar corporate jetliner. Indonesia's President Sukarno already owns one. So does Millionaire Harold S. Vanderbilt of Palm Beach and New York. But executive jets are running into stiff sales resistance from the very group for which they were intended: corporate executives. The difficulty is not salesmanship (a demonstration ride can be arranged at the drop of a hat) or a lack of a choice. Eleven planemakers, including four in the U.S., have corporate jets...