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...Cowboys General Manager Schramm, a member of the National Football League's five-man "competition committee," which every off-season invades the Hawaiian islands in the pursuit of progress. The other mad scientists are Miami and Pittsburgh Coaches Don Shula and Chuck Noll, and Atlanta and Cincinnati Executives Eddie LeBaron and Paul Brown. "Every now and then," says Schramm, "we'll move out onto the grass and play like we're football players. Here we are, five strange men in shorts, demonstrating different ways ^ of holding each other." They get some unusual looks from passersby...
...best are tossed about so easily in sports, like footballs in the Miami rain, the most articulate superlative left may be just a gasp changing to a sigh, such as Doug Flutie brought to college football last week. The most cuddly player in history, or at least since Eddie LeBaron, appears about to run away with the Heisman trophy. Mindful that there have been stirring football finishes for 100 years, and rip-roaring games the equal of Boston College's 47-45 victory over Miami, it can be fairly stated that never have a forward pass and a statue...
Though sales of new convertibles have not lived up to optimistic projections, they remain popular. Chrysler has sold 11,867 LeBaron and Dodge 600 convertibles this year, and Ford has moved 8,739 topless Mustangs. Jim Roberto, sales manager of Denver's Skyline Dodge, says he sells rag-tops as fast as he receives them. This fall another convertible will debut: a canvas-top version of the American Motors sub-compact Renault Alliance...
More than other money managers, LeBaron has tried to make stock picking a science. He and his staff test out the performance of hypothetical investment plans on a cluster of Prime computers. Once a strategy is chosen and programmed into a machine, the electronic wizard chooses what stocks to buy and sell without further human meddling. Says LeBaron: "Other companies use computers as adjuncts to people. We've turned that concept around and put the computer in charge." The computer has done well, beating the Standard & Poor's 500 index by an annual average of 6% over...
...weekends, the free-spirited LeBaron gets away from the intense pressure of his work by speeding through the countryside around Boston on a Honda motorcycle or one of his two Yamahas. He may be the only pension-fund manager to have read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance...