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...What can one man do? I can't even do anything about the scandals here -and there are plenty. Before Watergate, politicians used to be the second rung from the bottom of the ladder, just above used-car salesmen. Now we're on the bottom...
...Summer Employment--$210/Week." This is how the Southwestern Company of Nashville, Tenn., last week advertised its need for door-to-door dictionary salesmen...
...Harvard salesmen Calder brought with him had a different point of view. They said they believe in what they are selling and that they each made between $2800 and $6000 last summer...
What is the practical point of all this? Says Selwyn: "Unless [outside] businessmen can come to understand fully Continental attitudes and customs, they will be at a grave disadvantage." Specifically, he suggests, hire Dutch salesmen, but beware of Italian accountants or Belgian chauffeurs...
...Howdy from the middle of nowhere," say the souvenir postcards sold in Gila Bend, Ariz. The tiny town (pop. 1,700) is a truckers' and traveling salesmen's way station along Highway 80, which ribbons through the cactus-dotted desert between Tucson and Yuma. But Gila Bend is not the middle of nowhere any more. Last week reporters from both Europe and the U.S. poured into town, thronging the bar of the local Elks' Club and pressing into a dusty little courtroom decorated with a painting of Wild Bill Hickok being gunned down in a Deadwood saloon...