SELLING: Business Is Blooming

Next to chimney sweeps and blacksmiths, the people whose services are least in demand nowadays are those who sport long hair. "I tried to get a job in a supermarket, then as a newspaper copy boy, and later as a service station attendant," recalls John Wayne Suggs, 18, once a typical long-haired unemployable. "But they'd take one look at me and say 'Get out.' " Without benefit of a barber, he finally found a career.

Suggs is now a middle-echelon manager for Jerry Campbell and Tom Scott, two 24-year-olds from Dallas who employ a ragtag army of some 170 flower...

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