Word: chases
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Still flushing from the furor over its rejection of Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Carl T. Rowan, a Negro, Washington's Cosmos Club voted overwhelmingly to end its segregationist policies. But many in Washington were wondering about other clubs, especially the comfortable old Chevy Chase, a well-equipped (18 holes, 22 tennis courts, 2 bars), country club just over the D.C. line in Maryland. It has never admitted a Negro (and keeps plenty of white people waiting as long as eight years). President Kennedy and Vice President Lyndon Johnson are both honorary members...
Last week the U.S. got weary of Phoumi's rearing and backing, and hit him where it hurt: in the pocketbook. Leary of outright sanctions, the U.S. put the pressure on by failing to deposit the regular monthly aid payment of $4,000,000 with the Chase Manhattan Bank in New York. With a straight face, U.S. officials announced that "administrative snags" caused the delay. The U.S. aim: to make Phoumi and Boun Oum go to Geneva for more talks with the permanent international conference on Laos. But Phoumi was not about to buy a plane ticket for Geneva...
Amidst a buzz of rumors, the Cleveland Museum of Art paid an estimated $550,000 in 1959 for Rubens' Diana and Her Nymphs Departing for the Chase. Last week Oil Billionaire Jean Paul Getty said he had gambled more than $400,000 that Cleveland has a fake. New Year's guests at Getty's Sutton Place mansion near London saw, on a wall of pale green silk, an 8-ft. by 6-ft. canvas that Getty said was the real Diana and Her Nymphs. And it is generally acknowledged that Rubens never painted the same subject twice...
MARY CLAMPITT Chevy Chase...
...hero pumps up a powerboat and gives chase. His rival is soon unplugged. Psssssssss, no rival...