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...Adams House superintendent notified the Harvard police that the youths had been seen in B-entry. They posed as salesmen and carried newspapers and shopping bags-the bags presumably for transporting any stolen items, Tonis said...
Cigarette promotions account for 10% of the networks' ad revenues, and task forces of salesmen, notably from ABC, have been eagerly scouting for other advertisers to fill the gap. Their major targets: national retail chains, credit card companies, insurance companies, brokerage houses and all big firms involved in the travel business. Because of the economic slump, it is unlikely that the hole left by cigarette ads will be quickly plugged...
...meetings, occasionally sending out for hamburgers and Chivas Regal. Meantime, employees at Gramco's mock colonial headquarters fended off a flood of transocean phone calls from anxious shareholders in many far-off countries. Emerging from one meeting, Vice President Joseph Jordan delivered a pep talk to worried USIF salesmen. "We are solvent," he said. "If we have to, we'll clear the deck-tighten our belts, cut officers' salaries, drop employees. I get nothing. The shareholders will get paid." That, of course, remains to be seen. Gramco places such generous valuations on its properties that some...
While the Freshman Class of Harvard and Radcliffe attempts to settle down in the red-brick dormitories of the Yard and the Quad, it faces a barrage of tests, appointments and interviews, a bevy of cagier HSA salesmen, the first torments of homesickness and Union food, and, of course, Freshman Week...
...lawyers, salesmen and politicians should know, persuasion is an art. What they probably do not know is that varying the distance between the speaker and his target may affect the persuader's success. Within limits, report Psychologists Stuart Albert and James M. Dabbs Jr., the more distance there is the likelier the argument is to succeed...