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Fitness Council Chairman George Allen expects that Americans will look bad compared with Soviet students, who exercise an hour daily. He hopes the test will spur the U.S. into putting physical education "back in the school + systems, an hour a day, five days a week, kindergarten through twelfth...
...this does not sound like careful management practice, there you are; * Winifred never set out to be a careful manager. The daughter of a General Motors vagabond, she attended 22 schools before she reached twelfth grade. In Minnesota, shortly before she got her diploma, she met Robert Bundy, who was working on a master's in electrical engineering. He was nine years older, but "he looked real young." They were married in 1949, and Bob went to work in Los Angeles. "His object was to get to Tucson for me, because it was dry, and I had asthma." When...
...word is out: the unpredictable Veecks (as in wrecks) are going to make Free-Agent Henderson, the Yankees' peerless lead-off hitter and champion base stealer, their first selection. (The new book by Veecks Owner Golenbock is looked at somewhat askance by his fellow owners. Newcomer Golenbock finished in twelfth place last season, 68 points behind Mark Starr's victorious Nova, and his lodge brothers wonder where he gets his expertise.) This does not necessarily mean the Veecks will sign Henderson; merely that as last season's last-place team, they have the right to kick off the action...
...week Time Inc. Editor-in-Chief Henry Anatole Grunwald, who will retire at year's end, announced that the company's board of directors has, on his recommendation, chosen as his successor TIME Managing Editor Jason McManus, 53. Taking McManus' place beginning May 4 and becoming the magazine's twelfth managing editor will be Henry Muller, 40, currently TIME's chief of correspondents...
...still face profitability challenges," Mellon Bank Chairman J. David Barnes warned shareholders a year ago in the Pittsburgh-based institution's annual report. It was an accurate prophecy. The nation's twelfth largest bank holding company (current assets: $34.4 billion) earlier this month reported a quarterly loss of nearly $60 million -- the first in its 118-year history -- and watched shares plummet in just nine days from nearly 51 to around 38. Last week Barnes, 57, faced a new challenge: finding a job. One of the nation's best-known families of financiers and philanthropists had taken charge again...