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TIME correspondents in city after city found Americans thinking well beyond pot roast as they measured personal involvement with news. Said Sam Weller, a Salt Lake City book salesman: "We're going in the right direction now. There is no need for the United States merely to be caught up in events. We can control them." And nearly every eye was on Washington to see whether "we" - mean ing the President of the U.S. - would. "God. I hope he's up to it, " said a Los Angeles housewife apprehensively. In Albuquerque, Alice Schaab, wife of a tax lawyer...
Stevenson did not have to be told what the unexpected business was-the news ticker had told of it an hour earlier. A battered corpse lay buried at the bottom of a secret grave thousands of miles away in the desolate eastern Congo bush. Patrice Lumumba, ex-beer salesman, ex-embezzler, ex-Premier, was dead. Russia was obviously preparing to make the most of it, and Stevenson quickly got on the telephone to tell Washington to brace itself for the onslaught...
Died. Patrice Hemery Lumumba, 35, goateed, bespectacled Batetela tribesman who was a mission school student, postal clerk, embezzler and beer salesman before he became a successful demagogue and the first Premier of the Congo; said to have been murdered by bush villagers after he "escaped"' from jail; in an as yet undisclosed place in Katanga province (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...week in Chicago, Tanny's muscular sell was sporting several Charley horses. In Cook County circuit court a blind man asked for an injunction to release him from a $385 Tanny membership contract, claiming he went to Tanny's for a job, was told by a Tanny salesman that he had to sign a free membership application first. In suburban La Grange, a Tanny salesman was waiting trial for false imprisonment, on a charge brought by a girl who claimed he had kept her locked in his gym office for an hour while he tried to persuade...
When the Russians flew in fortnight ago, a V.I.P. lounge was thrown open in Montreal's new air terminal for a press conference. The Russian mission had brochure-fat briefcases and an expansive statement from Heavy Machinery Salesman Anatoly Prokhorov that "we are interested in selling anything in Canada." When Prokhorov cited Moscow's export line of Moskvich and Volga autos, added that he would like to set up a Canadian assembly plant, mayors and businessmen in half a dozen Ontario and Quebec towns rushed to announce that they had just the site. To get the trade going...