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With more participants, prizes, and more money pledged to benefit HAND (Harvard and Neighborhood Development) than in any other year, the fourth annual Currier House Dance Marathon "will be much bigger than it's ever been," says William E. Pittman Jr. '86, chairman of the dance committee...
...think we're going to come closer to our potential. I don't think we've begun to tap it," says Pittman...
Many civilians were lifted from the roof of the Pittman apartments. Of the vast American military commitment to Viet Nam, only eleven Marines remained on the embassy roof. Crowds of Vietnamese by this time were looting the embassy. A man's arm smashed through the window of the door leading to the rooftop helipad. A Marine jerked the arm down smartly onto the broken glass, and as the Marines waited for their deliverance, they alternated between studying the sky to the southeast and raking arms across the glass to keep the Vietnamese at bay. A Chinook-46 escorted...
...Pittman's idea for MTV was simplicity itself: get the record manufacturers to produce video commercials for their records and then use those elaborate and often fanciful commercials for most of MTV's broadcasting. After losing $50 million between 1981 and 1983, MTV made $8.1 million in the first half of 1984. It now has 24.2 million subscribers, up 60% in a year. A stock offering in August raised nearly $80 million. This month MTV will open a second channel called VH-1 (for Video Hits One), featuring romantic rockers such as Julio Iglesias and James Taylor for graying yuppies...
...Pittman, now neatly shorn, sees social significance in his success. "America has done a 180 degrees turn from the early 1970s," he says. "Americans now understand that you can't drop out, that you have to live life and work hard. Families, babies and tradition (Pittman married in 1979, now has a son Bo, 18 months old). That is reality...