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...factory to shake the hands of the women workers, got back into his plane to head for a round of electioneering in Port Huron. In that city, he slid behind the wheel of a new Rambler and chauffeured a 75-year-old spinster to the polls. On the way, Salesman Romney asked his passenger if she had ever before been in a Rambler. "No," said she with a twinkle, "but I've done quite a bit of rambling in my life...
...compete with European imports. American Motors President Romney led a lone revolution, put over the Rambler with such success that it revitalized his foundering company and forced the automotive giants of Detroit to bring out their own compacts. Romney sold the idea-and he is a super salesman. He went out on the road in a crusade against the "gas-guzzling dinosaurs" in the big-car field. That was the same sort of zeal that he applied to politics...
...campaign contribution" from Billie Sol Estes; he was done in by Republican Ed Foreman. Washington's five-term Democrat Don Magnuson (no kin to Senator Warren Magnuson ) had been hurt by drinking, driving and marital problems. He was defeated by the G.O.P.'s Bill Stinson, 32, a salesman seeking office for the first time. A federal indictment for trying to influence a mail fraud case was too great a handicap for Maryland's Thomas Johnson, who was unseated by Rogers Morton, strapping younger brother of Kentucky's victorious Senator Thruston Morton...
Beauty in Bavaria. One reason for the exodus, explains a German realty salesman, is that "Hitler and the war isolated us from the world." Says he: "Living abroad gives us a liberating feeling of belonging again." In fact, Germans abroad fraternize little with foreigners, prefer as a rule to segregate themselves in Teuton-villes that, except for sea air and plentiful help, could be summer suburbs of Stuttgart. Many buy land abroad in order to dispose of "black capital," as they call unreported income. Others frankly seek out areas that German real estate ads describe as "far from any crisis...
...Miami, Henry Keller, a onetime window salesman, scraped together $8,000, formed Air Control Products to sell aluminum windows, sashing and patio furniture. Keller concentrated on cost cutting and simplified production, last year rang up sales of $37.5 million...