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Glenn, on leave from the board chairmanship of Royal Crown International, retraced Henry Stanley's 1,000-mile trek, from Bagamoyo to Ujiji, in what is now Tanzania. The New York Herald headline hunter took 71 months to reach Missionary David Livingstone in 1871. Glenn made it in 51 weeks by foot, rail and Land-Rover. In the process, his documentary flashed back and forth artfully but not artily between Stanley's diary and line drawings of the day and troubled contemporary Tanzania. Glenn's words were not quite up to his pictures, though. By contrast with...
When Paul Wagler '69, then Operations Director of the club, ran last year for the chairmanship of Harvard Students for a Democratic Society and seriously said he felt he could serve both groups effectively, talk of censuring him faded away quickly. In the '50's such behavior would have been considered scandalous for a Republican...
...Congress once from the upper West Side (coming very close to winning); started one of the first groups to protest the war during the late summer of 1965 (Americans for a Reappraisal of Far Eastern Policy); and has been elected to the national board of SANE, the vice chairmanship of the Americans for Democratic Action (ADA), the board of the Rev. Martin Luther King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), and now the co-chairmanship of the Conference of Concerned Democrats. He is considered a prime candidate, according to national columnist James Weschler of the New York Post...
...with platoons of talent shifted around to cater to specific needs. It was a grand plan, but it went sour. In recent weeks Interpublic has undergone a major overhaul. More than 500 of some 8,000 employees have been dismissed. Harper, at 51, has been eased up to the chairmanship, and active command has been taken over by silver-haired Robert Healy, 63, a former McCann-Erickson chairman who was recalled from semiretirement...
...vacant this year-which suggests that the nation desperately needs a pool of skilled academic administrators. In the past, the grooming of college chief executives has often owed as much to chance as choice-a reluctant professor unexpectedly does well when his department's revolving chairmanship is thrust upon him, a dean displays a special talent for public relations or fund raising, a learned Government official wants an academic post...