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DIED. Victor Jules ("Trader Vic") Bergeron, 81, irascible, ingenious restaurateur who, starting in 1934, parlayed a tiny beer parlor in Oakland, Calif., into a San Francisco-based food and drink corporation grossing $50 million a year and featuring an international chain of 21 restaurants proffering an eclectic South Seas decor, rum drinks garnished with flowers and fruit and an "exotic" cuisine carefully tailored to American middle-brow taste; of a stroke; in Hillsborough, Calif. "You can't eat real Polynesian food," he once protested, calling it "horrible junk." Having lost a leg at age six to tuberculosis...
...rookie skipper in 1967, Padres Manager Dick Williams directed the Boston Red Sox from ninth to first, and in the '70s the Oakland A's fought and flourished under him. Williams provoked a particularly ugly brawl this year in Atlanta. Like Chicago, San Diego employs a ruthless trader, General Manager Jack McKeon, whose name should be listed highest in the credits. Not all of the Padres' names are recognizable, though some deserve recognition, for instance Reserve Catcher Doug Gwosdz (pronounced Goosh), whose perfect nickname, Eye Chart, revives that poetic baseball art. McKeon has a sense of poetry...
Hedgecock, the indictment charged, illegally received $357,150 for his 1983 campaign from Currency Trader J. David Dominelli and his business partner-girlfriend, Nancy Hoover. The money was allegedly funneled into the campaign through a political consulting firm set up by Hedgecock's friend Tom Shepard. The four defendants face prison terms of up to eight years and $5,000 fines if they are convicted. With the election only five weeks away, a steadfast Hedgecock said to a crowd of,voters, "I'm on the job every day, seeking the best for my city...
...Ticket Trader Donald McLarty of San Francisco got the idea for his U.S. Coupon Exchange in 1982, when a fellow traveler sold him a round-trip ticket to Hawaii for $100. Brokers like McLarty generally attract buyers and sellers through classified ads and then match them according to destination. Coupon selling is technically legal, but airlines differ in their attitude toward it. While American Airlines strictly forbids trading and Eastern plans to clamp down on the practice, Delta generally looks the other...
...breakfast between Smith and Marcinkus in Rome. As recently as last May, Wilson called FBI Director William Webster to ask about the status of U.S. interest in the case. Wilson was also sternly warned by the State Department in December 1983 to avoid involvement in the case of Commodities Trader Marc Rich, who fled to Switzerland after being indicted in one of the biggest tax-fraud cases in U.S. history. Yet shortly after, Wilson met with a Swiss official on Rich's behalf...