Word: roomming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Three years ago, the McGuanes moved out of Paradise Valley to their current spread near McLeod (pop. 5). In the cozy living room of his log-cabin house, McGuane throws another chunk of cottonwood on the fire as Laurie whips up a pot of hearty chicken soup in the kitchen. His lean, 6-ft. 3-in. frame draped across a wing chair, McGuane exudes the tempered confidence of hard-won experience. While many of his erstwhile drinking partners have fallen by the wayside, he has managed not only to survive but to thrive in his role of gentleman rancher...
...OKOYE COUNTRY. Thanks in large part to Okoye's heroics, the 7-6-1 Chiefs have a shot at the play-offs that begin Dec. 31. "That would be nice," says Okoye, who gives startling meaning to the term humble giant. "I like to see happiness in the locker room...
...negotiating for a new contract to replace his expiring, $150,000- a-year deal with the Chiefs, Okoye stands to get a handsome raise. But the fans' adulation has not yet gone to his head. Cho-Cho still wears his Azusa cap, emblazoned with a cross, around the locker room, and says that "being a Christian has helped me a whole lot. When the players get mad, I can control myself, playing my game instead of something else...
Three attorneys visited at a specified time last month. "We had tried to arrange our own date, but we were told that he was a busy man," says Keith Kunene, head of the Black Lawyers' Association. Mandela gave them a tour that included a room where he gets a weekly medical exam, a modest gym and a small outdoor swimming pool. He is permitted a TV and radio but not a shortwave receiver, which would pick up foreign broadcasts. Before talking politics, he hinted that the parlor might be bugged and asked Swart to bring some Cokes. Later Swart served...
When Mandela speaks with visitors, Swart sits in the next room, positioned so that he sees Mandela but the guests cannot see Swart. Guests must leave before 4 p.m., when Swart goes off duty. From then until 7 the next morning, South Africa's most famous prisoner is alone...