Word: chases
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ogle, getting ready for Dominic meant a frantic air chase between Hawaii, Omaha, Nevada, Washington and Denver -an average of some 1,000 miles...
...lured business from competing Beirut banks by cutting loan rates from 9% to 6%. To gain stature for his upstart bank, he convinced Bank of America that it should come into his trade-financing op erations, became correspondent for New York's venerable Chase Manhattan Bank, and opened branches in Syria, Iraq, Qatar and Jordan. In 1958, when near civil war halted Lebanese banking for more than three months and most of his competitors sat brooding over their ill fortune, Bedas took advantage of the lull to set up a branch in London and an affiliate bank in Geneva...
...island." Lieutenant Hutton is told when he arrives, "isn't much, but you'll learn to hate it.'' He does. There are 4,000 servicemen in residence and 18 white women. What's more, the 4,000 servicemen have nothing to do but chase one little old Japanese soldier who still holds out in the hills and at night sneaks past the U.S. sentries to pilfer the colonel's private stock of gefilte fish. After a year of this, the servicemen are so desperate for something to do that they start teaching...
...they attacked the palace with four bombs, eight rockets and cannon fire. Meanwhile, loyal ground troops, anticipating a full-scale revolution, hastily ringed the palace grounds with tanks. Minesweepers patrolled the Saigon River. Then two loyal pilots from the Bienhoa air base, twelve miles north of Saigon, gave chase, but on the ground in Saigon no one knew if the new arrivals were friends or foes. Antiaircraft fire from tanks, minesweepers, and even policemen's pistols was indiscriminate. Despite the confusion, most of the people went about their business with conventional apathy. Pretty girls in billowing silk gracefully pedaled...
...have not seen it at least twice, let me say dogmatically that they have rarely been matched since the film was made. Welles, in particular, who appears only briefly to gaze from the ferris wheel and to run through the sewers in the last and most climactic chase, performs as the smoothest and most attractive monster conceivable. He and a memorable zither tune will ensure that The Third Man continues to reappear...