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...crowd is gathering on the narrow sidewalk. "It's the gold crest on the door," Elton explains. "They think the car belongs to the royal family." He is greeted by the puzzled expressions and fading smiles of people disappointed at seeing a diminutive Hobbit. The bowing doorman and salesmen inside Cartier could not be more pleased. "Good morning, Mr. John," they chime in unison. "Can we help you with some gifts...
...after World War II, "the greater co-prosperity sphere" in Asia-once the aim of an aggressive Japanese empire-has been achieved by Japan Inc., a vast army of devoted, disciplined businessmen. To Americans the Japanese too often appear as some sort of grotesque national parody-crowds of transistor salesmen with kamikaze pilots' scarves, legions of passionate new consumers teeming on a string of islands which are about to sink beneath their growing population and industrial swill...
...traveling salesmen sold movies then Homebodies would be called a novelty item. Such gewgaws find their value not in beauty or utility but in their oddness. And, like a Whoopee Cushion or a musical nutcracker. Homebodies is an odd little item indeed...
...always, there were some Manhattanites who found a modicum of merit in phonelessness. "No dance lesson salesmen, no bill collectors, no heavy breathers," said Gidon Gottlieb, professor of law at New York University. "Silence, it's wonderful...
...counter-demonstrators--salesmen and drivers for the C. Pappas Co., Inc.--said they came of their volition and on their own time...