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...Carolina Tarheels. Sure, number two hurts, if only because it's so close. But when the season is placed in perspective, alotted its place in Tarheel history next to the great players and great teams, like the championship of 1957, the final-round loss of 1977, next to Billy Cunningham, and Charlie Scott and Walter Davis, and...the list goes on, why this squad won't be number two, they'll be winners...
Seagram's offer came in mid-February. An executive recruiter working on Cunningham's behalf called Seagram President Philip E. Beekman and suggested an interview. Though the company had not had a strategic planning V.P.. Beekman and Seagram Chairman Edgar Bronfman were sufficiently impressed by Cunningham to better other offers she was considering, including one that reportedly would have made her president of a small firm. Said Cunningham: "I weighed several challenging opportunities, and this one is unique...
...When Cunningham reports for work March 16 in Seagram's bronze-hued glass tower on Manhattan's Park Avenue, she will coordinate the company's wine ventures. They include Paul Masson and Gold Seal brands bottled in the U.S.; Barton & Guestier wines in France; vineyards throughout Europe; and the marketing for Christian Brothers Wine and Brandy...
...Cunningham's Seagram job is a prize, but it may not equal the job she lost at Bendix. Agee had made her his top assistant in charge of planning the corporation's intended metamorphosis from a staid manufacturing and natural resources concern into a high-technology conglomerate. Seagram has a task of similar magnitude: it must invest the $2.3 billion that it reaped last year from the sale of its U.S. oil and gas properties. But Cunningham will not be directly involved in this enterprise...
...Cunningham has insisted that she and Agee were never anything more than good friends. But she has resumed seeing Agee on a regular basis, though he lives in Michigan and she has taken an apartment in Manhattan. Cunningham's change of cities and companies may not, however, advance her goal of pursuing a career in privacy. Stanford University Business School has already made her the subject of a case study in its course, Power and Politics in Organizations...