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...almost any subject, Schlesinger is capable of striking grace notes, like his throwaway line on Aaron Burr: "A man of undoubted talents who, however, was trusted by no one in the long course of American history except for his daughter Theodosia and Gore Vidal." But Schlesinger is playing his nimble variations on substantial themes: the awkward partnership of a free economy and government, the complexities of foreign policy for a people tempted toward both interventionism and isolationism, the paradoxes of leadership constantly answerable to the voter. Whether the subject at hand is Viet Nam or the cold war, Schlesinger...
...Frank Lorenzo, chairman of Houston-based Texas Air, triumph was savored in poker-faced silence. For Donald Burr, Lorenzo's onetime protege and chairman of ailing, once revolutionary People Express, it was time to put the best possible face on defeat. The two fierce rivals and captains of cheap U.S. air travel sat at opposite ends of a table last week in Manhattan's St. Regis- Sheraton hotel to announce what many had expected: the long, tortuous People Express saga had ended with the airline's tentative sale to rapidly expanding Texas Air. The price: a bargain $125 million...
...heated maneuvering continued. People Express Chairman Donald Burr later said the parent company had canvassed "every other available alternative," including the possible sale of Frontier to other parties. Eventually, rumors began to grow that Newark-based People, which only five years ago threw the entire passenger-airline industry into a tailspin, might itself be quietly on the backroom auction block...
...focused people on the fact that the College and University are intellectual places," says Francis H. Burr '35, a former senior fellow of the Corporation who was chairman of the committee that selected Bok in 1971. "I don't think a really intellectual institution should be run by somebody not intellectual," Burr says...
...little bit like a football game. To decide who is going to get tickets, you have to have a pecking order," says Francis H. Burr '35, chairman of the 350th Anniversary Celebration Commission and former senior fellow of the Harvard Corporation...