Manuel Martinez, as he then was (Manolo Chopera is an untranslatable slang name everyone called him), had little enthusiasm for engineering and preferred to work with horses.

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Everyone called him Mike until some way into his studies at the LSE when, in a sudden change of style, he swapped his grey suit for sharp beatnik attire and insisted on being called the rather more working class-sounding "Mick".

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