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...object to the implication that "environmentalist" means "non-hunter." To hunt and to be concerned about the environment are not mutually exclusive. Theodore Roosevelt, an avid sportsman, was one of the driving forces behind the conservation movement...
...French idealist whose practical side was underrated, revived the Olympics in 1896 in the name of international amity but with a plea for fiscal sanity that is near to the heart of Peter Ueberroth, 46, the Olympian Cash McCall. For, in a way, this San Fernando Valley businessman-sportsman is starting the Games all over again too. "They must be kept more purely athletic," as the baron said, "more dignified, more discreet and more in accordance with the classic artistic requirements. The Games must be more intimate and, above all, the Games must be less expensive...
BORN. To Maria Imelda ("Imee") Marcos, 27, older daughter of Philippine President Ferdinand and First Lady Imelda Marcos, and Tomas Manotoc, 33, divorced amateur sportsman whom she married in Virginia 16 months ago: their first child, a son (he has two children by a previous marriage that under Philippine law is indissoluble); in Honolulu. Name: Fernando Martin. Weight: 6 Ibs. 8 oz. Her parents were bitterly opposed to the romance because of his marital status, and the couple had lived largely apart. But in March they went to Hawaii so that the baby could be born...
DIED. S. (for Selwyn) Kip Farrington, 78, gentleman sportsman who wrote about his hobbies of deep-sea fishing, amateur hockey and railroading in 24 books and as Field and Stream's salt-water-fishing editor for 35 years; in Southampton...
Several stories suggest to the experts that Andropov has an ability to put people at ease, even those who might fear him. Still, there is no hint of the humanity that bubbled from Brezhnev when he was drinking vodka or hunting wild boar. Andropov has no record as a sportsman. He seems totally urban, in complete contrast to the rural flavor of Khrushchev and Brezhnev. It is assumed, but not proved, that Andropov spent his formative political years in Karelia, on the Finnish border. What he did during World War II is also sketchy. Presumably, Andropov was involved...