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...successful modeling career, however is not one of Pearson's top priorities. He is currently training daily in hopes of qualifying for the 1984 Olympic trials as a marathoner. He estimates that he has run more than 20 marathons in the past five years and he turned in a very respectable time of two hours, 21 minutes and 40 seconds in the 1981 Boston marathon...
America has become inured to colossal business mergers in the last two years. Weddings like those of Occidental Petroleum and Cities Service, United States Steel and Marathon Oil, and the record-setting $7.5 billion union of Du Pont and Conoco have sometimes been shotgun affairs, sometimes harmonious ones. Throughout, the national press has doled out coverage indiscriminately in its continual search for bigness...
...talks culminated in a marathon meeting between Harry Gray and Thomas Pownall, president of Martin Marietta, on the afternoon and evening of Sept. 2 at the offices of United's New York City lawyers. With a handshake shortly before midnight, the two executives agreed that both their companies would offer to buy Bendix for approximately $1.5 billion. If a majority of Bendix shareholders sold out to either of them, the winner would assume control of Bendix, and then the two firms would carve up the captured company. The details have not been worked out, but United would probably take...
...brokers who work the floor of the Big Board, the past two weeks have been as exhausting and exhilarating as a triumphant run in a marathon race. Never have they logged so many miles rushing between the buzzing telephones along the walls of the exchange and the bustling trading posts in the middle. Never have the stock prices, which are flashed in green on the electronic tapes overhead, surged, dipped and surged again with such stupefying speed. Never have so many big deals been executed one after another. "It feels like you can never get done," says Harry Buonocore...
...Early Today, a 6:30 a.m. curtain raiser to the 30-year-old Today show, which airs at 7 a.m. To come in October are an ABC hour of news and talk from midnight to 1 a.m., featuring Interviewer Phil Donahue, and a CBS marathon from 2 a.m. to 7 a.m. that will lead into the network's Morning News from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. CBS was first to announce its move, but it will be the last into the fray. Claims a CBS executive: "We want to get it right the first time...