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...A300B is holding its own in the stringently competitive sales arena, where salesmen have been known to press prospects with photos of their rivals' air crashes. A sales team for the Lockheed L-1011 was in Australia last week, but so too was one for the A300B. Its salesmen claim that the A300B is quieter than rivals and, even more enticing, uses roughly 23% less fuel per seat mile than a 727. So far, eight airlines-six from Europe, one from Thailand and one from Brazil-have ordered 22 airbuses, at $21 million to $22 million each; options have...
...like your job?" is the basic question that Studs Terkel asks in his much ballyhooed collection of conversations with 135 Americans. The not very surprising answer: "I don't." A virtuoso of the unobtrusive mike, Terkel talked with elevator operators and company presidents, yacht salesmen and bricklayers, firemen and middle-managers, foremen and farmers and hair stylists-with those few who thought they were in control, with those many more who knew they were not. The excellence of the interviews is hard to convey in brief, since it is a stream-of-consciousness flow that gives them their quality...
...scene in Atlanta's Civic Center resembled an industrial trade show as hundreds of customers drifted past display booths festooned with bright banners and posters. A revolving display in one booth vied for attention with a video-tape demonstration next door. Some salesmen engaged visitors hi animated discussion, while others passed out catalogues and brochures. The products they were promoting were not power boats or automobiles but colleges. Their customers were 1,000 high school students and their parents, drawn to the city's first national college fair...
...raided dealerships customarily carried off the ruse with alarming ease: a salesman would step outside at the propitious moment, listen at a monitoring panel in a nearby office until his customers arrived at the figure they could afford, then return to clinch the deal. Several Maryland electronics-company salesmen have said that the practice is widespread. One firm has in stalled in auto dealerships throughout the state at least 100 intercom systems that can easily be converted into bugs...
...bombers, 275 AMX-30 tanks and assorted other military items. In return, the Saudis have agreed to provide France with about $50 billion worth of oil over the next 20 years. Britain last week was completing delivery of twelve Westland Mark I commando-carrying helicopters to Egypt, and British salesmen are now trying to interest Saudi Arabia in some Scorpion light tanks...