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DIED. Robert McNeil), 75, who as chairman of Manufacturers Hanover Trust from 1963 to 1971 led the banking industry in a successful four-year fight for federal clarification of how antitrust laws affect bank mergers; in Orlando, Fla. McNeill worked his way up from a small-town bank teller to become a vice president of Hanover Bank in 1940, and went on to help engineer its merger with Manufacturers Trust...
Martin is a walking advertisement for his three western-wear boutiques-a sartorial taste acquired from that small-town Oklahoman, Mantle. Off duty, the manager sports hand-tooled lizard boots and wide-brimmed hats, making him the unlikeliest bandy-legged urban cowboy of them all. He lives quietly with a woman friend in an East Bay apartment. Nowadays, he spends less time in bars-and less time in fights. Martin has had his share of them. Outside a bar with one of his own players (Twins' Pitcher Dave Boswell, 1969), in a bar with a Reno sportswriter...
...forlorn, awaiting the contests of next fall. But in one important respect, next fall has already arrived: the recruiting war, the annual midwinter crusade to corner the market on high school football flesh, has begun. College coaches have abandoned their campuses and sallied forth to woo players from small-town fields and big-city playgrounds...
...will begin sharing his responsibilities. "I was about that age when I started," says the Prince. "It's obviously difficult to start with, but you just have to plunge in." His duties consist, principally of letting himself be seen, not to mention photographed and interviewed, at factories, schools, small-town gatherings and state func tions. That routine will not change much when he finally becomes King-upon his mother's death or abdication (she is 54 and in good health), although he will then have the right to see official papers. Diana will, of course, share...
Radio and television messages to the boys at the front. Small-town burials of flag-draped coffins. Posthumous awards for valor. These are daily reminders of South Africa 's seemingly endless, distant bush war, which has droned on for 14 years. The battleground is Namibia (South West Africa), which South Africa has controlled since 1920. A flurry of hope for a negotiated cease-fire was shattered in Geneva last month when a United Nations conference on Namibia's future broke down. Reason: South Africa refused to risk an independent government led by the Marxist-oriented South West Africa...