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Looking sexy is the big pull. Says Marilyn Black, a public relations expert in Los Angeles: "Guys call me Carmen Miranda and snap their fingers over their heads when I walk down the street. Bare shoulders must be sexy." Tina Comparato, a Washington saleswoman, confirms that "you get more looks in a strapless dress than in a very short...
...tony Thomas E. McElroy Co.: "For a while [the rich] weren't showing their wealth, but now they're indulging themselves." So, too, is the credit-card set, which today includes an ever growing number of liberated women earning their own incomes. As one Manhattan fur department saleswoman quips: "Master Charge is replacing the sugar daddy...
Many consumers are using the money to finance purchases of essential goods and services that they could have ill afforded otherwise. Helen Wood, a saleswoman for an Atlanta office-supply firm, spent her $139 check on children's bathing suits and some clothes for herself. A Pittsburgh mother of five says that she cashed her check and used it for food and household supplies-without telling her husband. Detroit Secretary Virginia Donohue is paying for dental work with her rebate. "It's a godsend," she exclaims...
...disadvantage for the white upper-middle class defendants. That argument, however, is discredited by many expert observers. The jurors range in age from 27 to 68 (average: 52). Their occupations span a wide spectrum, including a loan specialist for the Department of Agriculture, a dime-store saleswoman, a logistics coordinator, a retired domestic and a hotel doorman. The jury is overwhelmingly female (nine to three). After they were selected, fully half the jurors told Judge John Sirica that they had reservations about convicting Richard Nixon's underlings in view of Nixon's pardon, but vowed that they would...
...stood there, I noticed the face of a baby printed on the front of the saleswoman's yellow T-shirt. It was a big green baby face that stood out under her long brown hair...