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...each of the samples that they give him to distribute. The campus stores pay 150 for a package of samples worth $2 or $3, then charge their customers about 290 for it. The eight or more items in a men's pack currently include Old Spice lotion, Gillette blades and Alka-Seltzer; the women's pack has, among other items, Pond's cream makeup and talcum, Colgate's Lustre-Creme shampoo and Grove Laboratories' NoDoz. On large campuses, bargain-happy undergrads have grabbed up as many as 8,000 one-to-a-customer packs...
...explication, the facts and spice are secondary to the worries. There is almost delight in discussing the Corps' problems, mistakes, failures, in talking of the loneliness, boredom and frustration that are the primary health problems of Volunteers abroad. There is, of course, a catch. What follows is a description of what the Corps is doing to change itself...
...Spice & Calories. The most successful salesmen are the least popular ones: the West Germans, whose high enthusiasm and low prices have overcome some of the postwar bitterness. To negotiate deals, West German companies send in up to a dozen men. Other Western countries also give solicitous service, sometimes dispatch salesmen born in Eastern Europe-or eminent public personalities. Recently Denmark's Prime Minister Jens Otto Krag visited Eastern Europe to sell some goods, and Britain's Lord Snowdon jetted to Prague to talk with Czech buyers at a British industrial design show there...
...will get the cleaned-up Robin Hood treatment from ABC. ABC also has a variant of Bonanza called The Big Valley; Barbara Stanwyck plays Lorne Greene, dispensing wise advice and stuff to her three sons and a daughter, plus her dead husband's bastard boy for extra spice. Robert Horton, late of Wagon Train, has now forgotten his name and goes searching around the West for it as A Man Called Shenandoah (ABC). He may bump into Lloyd Bridges, who has come out of the sea and is also wandering the West trying to get happy in Rod Serling...
...SOUND OF MUSIC. The Tyrolean Alps get an eye and earful of Julie Andrews, who adds spice to the sugary Richard Rodgers-Oscar Hammerstein musical about the Trapp Family singers...