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Thus began Ueberroth's meteoric rise to the forefront of the nation's consciousness. The former owner of a travel company, he is a businessman turned hero--the CEO who draws upon the traditional values of hard work and clean living. And he has assumed his place alongside other national figures with stunning swiftness...
...persons on his Nominating Committee "represent a diversity of backrounds and experience." Perhaps. But on the evidence of what they produced, they either did not follow through on the logic of their diversity is pretty myopic: of the ten official nominees, nine are either current of retired CEO's, chairs or partners in investment banking, real estate, law firms, and other large corporations. Not a single one of the candidates says a word about divestment, which The New York Times (April 5, 1986) referred to as "the biggest campus issue since the end of the Vietnam War." Rather...
...previous roles, Lido (Lee) Iacocca has mostly been the tough-talking star of his own Chrysler commercials. But last week on NBC's designer cop show, Miami Vice, the gung-ho CEO was back in the thespian driver's seat playing a different character. Or was he? Invited to drop by whenever he was in town by Michael Talbott, who plays Detective Stanley Switek, Iacocca did just that while in Miami on a promotional tour. The episode, scheduled to air in May, casts Iacocca in a cameo role as Parks Commissioner Lido, a "silver- haired, self-possessed, no-baloney administrative...
...they returned with an Etch-A-Sketch? What they need is at least three hours in front of the tube on a Saturday morning. If they balk, tell them that you're appearing in one of the commercials, or that your friend Freddie's wealthy dad, Mr. ceo, watches every Saturday to pick up business tips. Only when they've put in their tube time will they begin to understand the vital differences between He-Man and She-Ra, Voltron and MASK, Wuzzles and Lots-a-Lots-a-Leggggggs...
...proved the most reliable contributors of smaller annual sums. University officals must first convince business executives of the importance of undergraduate institutions to the aims of private corporations. Rallying a wide array of arguments, they have stressed the need to train future teachers, and what Andrew Heiskell, the retired CEO of Time, Inc. and chairman of Harvard's corporate gifts committee, calls "the liberal education that is the essence of any managerial...