Word: chases
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...across miles of desert, the people of the Sudan cast their ballots in the first election since their country became wholly independent in 1956. Among the sophisticated Arabs of Khartoum, the balloting went off without a hitch. But in the western deserts, election officials in jouncing jeeps had to chase down camel-riding nomads to collect their ballots. In the Nuba region, voter identification was complicated by the local habit of naming all eldest sons Cuckoo. Several precincts in the eastern mountains reported that voters were showing up with entirely different names from those under which they registered, because...
...still bedded indefinitely, he learned that an old friend, Oklahoma's Democratic Senator Mike Monroney, has rounded up an impressive roster of guest columnists from both sides of the Senate aisle and Washington-at-large. Among Stokes's pinch hitters, who took over last week: Senators Margaret Chase Smith, William Knowland, Lyndon Johnson, John Kennedy, CIA Director Allen Dulles, Under Secretary of State Christian Herter, Army Chief of Staff Maxwell Taylor, Secretary of the Interior Fred Seaton, ex-Secretary of State Dean Acheson...
...Million in the Chest. The union figured it could hold out a long time. It has a $33 million strike war chest, which, as Columnist Murray Kempton quipped, "is rather like the Chase Manhattan Bank going on strike." But management was hemmed in. Unless settlement came soon, the shops would be unable to start their summer-dress deliveries as planned on April i. and their fall showings would be late. Said Adolph Klein, spokesman for 32 high-priced fashion houses: "We just don't know if there will be a summer line if the strike lasts another week...
Speaking on banking was David Rockefeller '36, vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Chase Manhattan Bank. He emphasized the universal aspect of banking and the "tremendous variety of opportunities in this field...
...career conference on finance will be held tonight at 8 p.m. in the Leverett House Dining Hall. The speakers are Louis C. Jensen, Personnel Director of the Prudential Insurance Company; David Rockefeller '36, vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Chase Manhattan Bank, and Robert N. Wallis, vice-President and Treasurer of the Dennison Manufacturing Company. Dwight P. Robinson Jr., President of the Massachusetts Investors Trust will moderate...