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Good land down below. Good people when you get there. What we used to call Richard Nixon's people for the most part. Supermarket proprietors, cattlemen, computer salesmen, bankers, suburban housewives and mothers-the people who plan and manage the American way of life...
Some Republicans, seeking consolation, argue that Watergate has left all politicians in bad odor. "People are so fed up," says New Hampshire's Senator Norris Cotton, "we've fallen behind used-car salesmen, and in view of recent court decisions, it looks like the homosexuals will soon be ahead...
...lucky: she was hired as Ethel Kennedy's social secretary at Hickory Hill, Va. Pilots Mel Vos and John Stout are doing all right; they have gone into the tree-planting business northwest of Chicago. Some of their fellow crew members at United Air Lines are becoming postmen, salesmen and teachers. Others are still looking, and growing more desperate. For 16,500 U.S. airline employees suddenly out of work (of a total force of 300,000), the new lean look of air travel has brought a wrenching change...
...home town of Running Back Willie Wilson, one of the East Coast's brightest high school football stars. The two football celebrities were only a part of a 40-man invasion force that, according to Wilson's coach Howie Anderson, lined up "like vacuum cleaner salesmen" to see Wilson...
...keeps order, ousting patrons who utter even the mildest of profanities. Hookers are immediately booted out. A strict dress code outlaws Levi's, tank tops and cutoffs. These rules apparently appeal to the clientele that seeks out the club: a conservatively dressed crowd of nurses and schoolteachers, pilots, salesmen and junior executives...