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49 (t i- v- i.f X'- f- j- t-r: cc 'WMHh: -flfe 1 re MtfMMBWBMnHB mi MA Kftp gyp?" 1 mm New NBC chairman to battle ex-wife's hit shows on CBS By BERNICE KANNER A Spencer Tracy-Katherine Hepburn man vs. woman movie plot Is shaping up as Grant Tinker prepares to take over at NBC and begin competing against his ex-wife's hits on CBS. The 55-year-old Tinker, who was named chairman and chief executive of NBC yesterday, is making final arrangements to transfer ownership of his MTM Enterprises to his two partners, Arthur Price and Mary Tyler Moore, the woman he divorced last year after 19 years of marriage. Tinker succeeds Fred Silverman, who resigned yesterday after waging, but losing, a three-year battle to pull NBC from the ratings cellar. (For the advertising world's reaction, see Page 51.) As luck would have it, MTM's biggest current hits, "Lou Grant" and where he Is vacationing, Tinker reluctantly conceded: "I guess that's a fact of life, but there's not much I can do about it" Tinker said he will "irrevocably and completely" dissassociate himself from MTM to avoid any conflict of interest and that a squadron of lawyers is handling that now.

One possibility is that his share will be placed in a blind trust "Soon MTM will be just a pleasant memory," Tinker added. And through a spokesman, Mary Tyler Moore said she is "very pleased for Grant" Tinker would not say how much he expected to net from the divestiture of the successful 11 year-old production company, but he added it "is enough for me to afford to do this. It's enough to give me independence." 1 Tinker also declined to talk about the terms of his NBC contract But it is known that he is getting a multi-year contract to succeed Silverman, who, in turn, was paid more than $1 million a year. TINKER IS an outspoken critic of See TINKER Page 53 Grant Tinker: reluctant about her Mary Tyler Moore: pleased for him biggest hit ever was the "Mary Tyler Moore Show," which ran for seven years on CBS. REACHED TODAY in France, "WKRP Cincinnati" are on rival CBS, where they will return for a fourth and third season respectively, and part of Tinker's mandate is to come up with shows to knock them off.

His McNamara elected to Corning Glass board of directors Stanfil! out at Fox; is Hirschfield next? General Portland fights takeover Dallas (AP) Directors of General Portland Inc. have rejected a "shocking" unsolicited purchase offer. from Canada. Cement Lafarge Ltd. and are suing to stop further acquisition efforts, General Portland Chairman James Lendrum said today.

Directors said the offer of $45 cash per share of common stock, or a total of $315 million, was too low and also said they believed the acquisition would raise several serious legal questions, including antitrust problems. Both concerns are in the cement business. State District Judge Snowden Left-wich Jr. of Dallas yesterday issued a temporary order barring Canada Cement from buying or trying to buy General Portland stock and from disclosing information General Portland gave them in earlier talks. A hearing is set for July 9 on the restraining order.

By BARBARA ETTORRE and BANDY SMITH Dennis Stanf ill's sudden resignation yesterday sent Shockwaves throughout 20th Century-Fox Film Corp. and raised questions about the future role of Alan J. Hirschfield, Fox's vice chairman and the object of a two-year power struggle with Stanfill. Stanfill quit unexpectedly, as chairman and chief executive officer at Fox only 2Vt weeks after millionaire Denver oil wildcatter Marvin Davis bought the company for about $700 million. Stanfill flew to Denver from Los Angeles yesterday to deliver his resignation by hand to Davis, who See STANFILL Page 53 Corning, N.Y.

(AP Corning Glass Works today announced that former World Bank President and Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara has been elected to its board of directors. NcNamara, who served as Defense secretary in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations from 1961 to 1968, retired last month from the World Bank after serving 13 years as its president The bank, which is owned by its more than 125 member nations, provides financial and technical assistance to developing member countries. Before becoming head of the Defense Department, McNamara spent more than 14 years with Ford Motor Co. He was elected president of the nation's No.

2 auto maker in 1960. Stanfill: power struggle loser? SURVIVAL ON THE BOARDWALK nl? isSasisi Bidnres economic roller coaster I By KEN MCKENNA The record crowds do not pack Coney Island anymore. Its amsemers-park no longer stretches for acres along the Boardwalk. And its pricetfCave steadily escalated in a sometimes desperate scramble to keep pace with costs. Yet Coney Island survives.

And the people still turn out. This first of two stories looks at the economy of the legendary amusement park. over-the-hill fighter. Yet, worn and battered, it survives. CERTAINLY, THE amusement area has shriveled.

Once it spread block after gaudy, noisy block on both sides of Surf Ave. Now, it is down to three or four streets fronting on the Boardwalk and backed by Surf Ave. The non-ocean side of Surf Ave. is dotted with boarded-up stores, flea markets and burned-out buildings. A single ride, the Carousel, remaliis open there.

Opposite, on the ocean side, two roller coasters the Thunderbolt and the See CONEY ISLAND Page 52 Mike Curran, in shirtsleeves, was crossing Surf Ave. the other day en route to the amusement rides he operates on the Bowery, Coney Island's tawdry but still colorful midway. "When I was here three years, one of the old timers told me that Coney was never going to last" he said to a companion. He laughed and shook his head of gray hair. That was in the late 1940s and Curran, one of a dogged band of Coney Island capitalists, has been making a living there ever since.

shoddy for the home base of a nationwide food chain. But that's Coney Island. It is aged, slightly seedy, a place where Walt Disney would have brought his kids. It is an amusement park that has been counted out more times than an He pointed to Nathan's, which 6prawls through several joined buildings at Stillwell and Surf Aves. "That's the heart of Coney Island right there," he said.

The aging hot dog stand, covered by coat after coat of garish yellow and green paint, looked.