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Died. George Preston Marshall, 72, owner of the National Football League's Washington Redskins and one of the game's most successful showmen; of a stroke; in Washington. For a mere $150 in 1932, Marshall bought the franchise for the floundering Boston Redskins, soon moved the team to Washington, where he gave the fans Slingin' Sammy Baugh at quarterback and dazzling marching bands at halftime. The football was sometimes very good (divisional titles in 1940, '42, '43, '45)-and the show always was-to the extent that Marshall boasted he never had a losing...
...theology has a strong this-worldly existentialist cast. "The idea of heaven is irrelevant for black theology," says Cone, the author of a recent book called Black Theology & Black Power. "The Christian cannot waste time contemplating the next world, if there is a next." One participant in the session, Preston N. Williams of Boston University, explained: "The black man cannot divorce theology from social action. Whites say, 'That's not theology at all.' The real question is who is going to define the norms of theology." Some Negro churchmen feel that theology created by white men views...
Political Laundry. The McGovern group has angered local party chieftains by its failure to follow protocol in notifying them when it was holding hearings in their states and by its determination to change undemocratic processes of delegate selection. Texas' Governor Preston Smith, incensed when he learned from newspaper articles that McGovern was coming to Austin, fumed, "This is an absurd way of going about this." Democratic National Committeeman J. Marshall Brown of Louisiana was so infuriated at the commission's plans that he "ordered" McGovern to stay out of his state and sent Democratic National Chairman Fred Harris...
BYRON NELSON GOLF CLASSIC (ABC, 4-5 p.m.). The final two rounds of the $100,000 tourney from the Preston Trail Golf Club in Dallas will be continued Sunday afternoon...
University officials declined to release the name of the student who has been admitted to Stillman Infirmary "for observation" or the extent of his injuries. Dr. Preston K. Munter, assistant director of the University Health Services, said yesterday that he was "doing as well as can be expected, which is well...