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...down plant management when things are not ship shape, sometimes takes a soldering iron and a screwdriver to go to work on a problem himself. The largest single Magnavox stockholder (167,000 of 2,350,000 shares), he relaxes aboard the 62-ft. company yacht, Magna Mar, fishes for marlin off Florida. A music lover, he has little confidence in engineering graphs and charts that prove his product is perfect. When he wants to judge, he cocks his ear, decides how it sounds...
...displayed). Some 40% of all small pleasure boats being built are of fiber glass; last year alone, plastic boat production jumped from 85,000 to 130,000 boats. Among the plastic sail fleet: a 17-ft. Thistle sloop ($1,875 without sails), Cape Cod Shipbuilding's 23-ft. Marlin day sailor ($5,500 without sails), the 25-ft. New Horizons auxiliary sloop ($8,950 with sails), and the 41-ft. Bounty II with a new yawl rig to improve its racing potential. Newest members of the flotilla are the catamarans, which will easily outspeed many power boats. Among them...
...Southern California (8-0)-beat Baylor, 17-8, as its massive line, anchored by End Marlin and Guard Mike McKeever (TIME, Oct. 26), gave up only three yards on the ground...
...famed muscle factories of Pennsylvania to land Tackle Dan Ficca (6 ft. 1 in., 230 lbs.). But Clark's prize finds were waiting at Mount Carmel High School, right in Southern Cal's own home town of Los Angeles. As high-school All-Americas, Mike and Marlin McKeever got offers from some 40 colleges, including Notre Dame and Oklahoma. Says Marlin: "We picked U.S.C. because of its high scholastic rating, and because the team was down and we were offered a real challenge." End Marlin and Guard Mike both made the first string last year as sophomores. Lean...
...fret mildly because they cannot find identical twins to date-"not even unattractive ones." But on the field, they butt heads with unalloyed pleasure. Drawls Stanford Coach Jack Curtice: "Those boys could go bear hunting with a switch and come back with meat." Admits Marlin: "We get. sheer pleasure out of football-out of knocking people down. It's just plain...