Word: chases
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hand. It took Altizer 21.5 sec. to do the job. Oliver spurted into a 7-sec. lead. Doggedly, Altizer cut the lead to 2.9 sec.-but now he was pressing. He missed on his first attempt to lasso his ninth calf, had to whip out a reserve lariat and chase the calf again, lost a few precious seconds. "That done it," groaned an Altizer fan. "He's lost." At the end, Oliver's winning margin was 7.5 sec. The Texans glumly paid off their bets and demanded a rematch...
Save for a fine arrangement of Summertime by the band's flutist and guitarist Carl Chase, and a wonderful long solo by Cooke on Blue Grass, the concert didn't really begin until the band's highly impressive vocalist, Liz Filo, swept on stage towards the end of the first set. But Mrs. Filo (who, in a black cocktail dress, improved my frame of mind before she even opened her mouth) picked up band and audience alike, and only set them down, flushed and cheering, after six stunning tunes. The band improved with her very first number, skillfully backing...
...mileage, Tennessee's University of the South at Sewanee is not far from Athens, Ga., but in spirit it is right next door to Athens, Greece. Sewanee's burly boys chase not the pagan pigskin but good marks in Classics 206-"a study of Greek athletics." Purpose: to learn the arts of ancient boxing, running, wrestling, the discus, the shot and the javelin, plus "the Greek concept of athletics and its place in Greek education...
...Kingmakers. Perhaps nowhere in the world do banks hold more sway over the business community. German banks are at once commercial lenders, stockbrokers and underwriters-or, as one top German banker explained, "a combination of Chase Manhattan, First Boston and Merrill Lynch." Most German stockholders, untrained in the vagaries of "corporate democracy," readily sign proxies for banks to vote their interests at annual meetings...
...Signed up by Campbell-Ewald during World War II, he has headed the agency for the past decade, increased its billings 350% to last year's $87 million. He leans to simple ads with somewhat corny slogans ("Swissair Swisscare"), and his personal tastes are plain. He likes to chase fire engines and listen to his vast collection of recorded noises of railroad locomotives...