Word: marathoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Listing Herschbach's accomplishments hardly does justice to his contributions to the undergraduate community, but notable in his five-year term as Currier House co-master are his support for the Dance Marathon, the music program, as well as ethnic awareness--for which he and his wife, Georgene, were given an honorary award by the Black Students Association...
...music and sports. Painter Keith Haring, Musicians Philip Glass and Lou Reed and a member of Paik's "family" of video robots will appear in Manhattan, Architect Arata Isozaki and Fashion Designer Issey Miyake will be on from Tokyo, and outside Seoul, cameras will follow the running of the marathon at the Asian Games. "The hardest part was not raising the money but dealing with three different countries that historically mistrust one another," notes Korean- born Paik, 54, who clearly remains unfazed by such geopolitical interference. He is already looking forward to his next project, a live global broadcast during...
Though a game, Debtbusters is not exactly fun. In 50 state capitals last week, 16-member teams spent three hours debating ways to cut the federal budget. The game's originator, Roger Molander, president of the Roosevelt Center for American Policy Studies in Washington, staged the marathon as a public- education exercise and an informal plebiscite on the deficit...
Tisch had been dissatisfied with Wyman's performance for months, but the new chief executive did not win the support of a majority of the CBS board until last week. In fact, when the marathon board meeting began at 9 a.m., most of the directors apparently had no intention of firing their chairman. The turning point came when Wyman, the sole CBS executive with a board seat, announced he had secretly begun negotiations that could lead to the sale of the $5 billion company to Coca-Cola. The stunned directors, all of whom were determined to keep CBS independent, asked...
Finally, with Paley, Tisch and Wyman out of the room, the remaining directors reached a unanimous decision. "The board was not willing to put the company up for sale," said one of them. "Once that was conveyed to Mr. Wyman, he resigned." The rest of the marathon meeting was spent on arrangements to hand over temporary control of the company to the new team of Paley and Tisch...