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...second in command, Herbert Grueter, are convinced that their inside track was due to Chinese officials' familiarity with the 707, which the French and Pakistan national airlines regularly fly into Peking. (Air Force One, the presidential jet, also is a 707.) Even so, Boeing's salesmen used every method they could think of, including visits to Chinese offices in Hong Kong and advances through intermediaries, before getting the nod. Finally Miller tried the direct approach and spent 21? to mail a letter to the China National Machinery Import and Export Corp. in Peking. Back came an invitation...
...Pittsburgh area, Donna Deaner, 30, a onetime newspaper and television journalist, directs the Allegheny County consumer affairs bureau. Since its founding 18 months ago, Deaner and her staff of six investigators have worked informally with merchants, salesmen and repairmen to resolve thousands of consumer complaints and have managed to get back $150,000 for aggrieved shoppers. Though the bureau lacks the power to levy fines, it has made its weight felt. When investigators discovered recently that several supermarkets in the city were labeling $1.59-a-lb. rib roast as $2.19-a-lb. club steak, and selling rump as more expensive...
...time has almost come. Video visionaries have been promising that some day soon no living room will be complete without a videotape player and recorder, along with a library of cassettes. Some companies have been putting movie classics on cassettes, as well as cooking lessons, travelogues and courses for salesmen and doctors. Many of the biggest companies in consumer electronics-RCA, CBS, Sony, Telefunken, Decca, Ampex, Avco -have poured fortunes into developing cassettes or special player attachments for home television sets that, any day now, would revolutionize...
...shifting population documented by Packard includes not only the obvious categories, such as military men and migrant workers, but also athletes, actors, long-distance bus and truck drivers, salesmen, construction workers and airline stewardesses. Blacks flee the inner cities, and whites flee blacks. People displaced by urban renewal or superhighways are forced to pull up stakes. So, very often, are executives transferred to distant cities; to many of its employees, IBM means "I've Been Moved." The aged migrate voluntarily, becoming "snowbirds" in the sunshine of Florida or California. The young leave home to escape their parents...
...became America's first wardrobe engineer, a veritable B.F. Skinner of haberdashery who believes that a man's clothing can be chosen to evoke conditioned responses from anyone he meets. Operating out of a cluttered office in Manhattan, Molloy teaches dress habits that, he says, enable salesmen to sell more insurance, trial lawyers to win more cases and executives to exert more authority. Wardrobe engineering, Molloy says, "is just putting together the elements of psychology, fashion, sociology...