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...even know our own literature. We have been brought up on what D. H. Lawrence called the pale-faces of American literature, the bank tellers and insurance salesmen who wrote about existence in the evenings. We don't know about the red-skins, the Whitmans and Williamses and Ginsbergs and Olsons who didn't want to be English or metaphysical, but wrote about themselves in their own idiom. These poets are more ours than any others because they have written our language...
Watching as a girl is stripped by a male partner (he wearing gloves). Mrs. Shecter observes: "Some of the girls have wonderful undergarments, wonderful bras." Adds Mrs. Shriver: "When I first started seeing these films, they looked like they were made by underwear salesmen...
FROM transistor radios to whole steel mills, the Japanese have been able to sell the rest of the world just about everything-except themselves. A "hate-Japan wind," as it is called in Tokyo, has been rising as legions of Japanese tourists and hard-bargaining salesmen swarm into the rest of Asia. "Once it was 'the ugly American' who proved most conspicuous around here," says a Japanese correspondent in Bangkok. "Now it's 'the ugly Japanese.' And wherever he goes, bribery, the kickback routine, dumping practices, golfing and sex crazes go with...
While accountants are rising to greater glory, salesmen are under new pressure. They are finding that the telephone is no longer a substitute for a personal visit. "They have to become salesmen again," says Eugene Jannuzi, chairman of Pennsylvania's Moltrup Steel Products Co. There is a much longer delay between a customer's inquiries and the actual placement of orders. Robert Dickey III, president of Pittsburgh's barge-making Dravo Corp., complains that customers now wait until the last minute to seal deals that would have been immediately snapped up six months...
...board of directors. Former German Chancellor Ludwig Erhard spurned Cornfeld's overtures, and now heads a rival mutual fund, but no less a personage than German Economics Minister Karl Schiller turned up as the main speaker last month at a pep rally for Bernie's German salesmen...