Word: chases
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...typhoon, and the inequity of the struggle smothers the tragic sense, which demands a more equal conflict in which the hero duels with himself, with another man or with God. Man's fate as it unfolds in Mila 18 contains the hound-after-fox emotions of the chase and the kill, sometimes exciting, often poignant, but always oppressive...
While physically not a slum, the Elms is a squalid place to live. During the day a child can be seen, crying but unnoticed, on the step of an entryway. And as evening comes, a teenager can chase a screaming seven-year-old across the project without interference. A mother's plaint is accurate: "The project is no place to bring up a child...
...ceremonial flight of helicopters buzzed overhead, the world's largest bank building officially opened for business last week in New York. Almost everything about the Chase Manhattan Bank's new 60-story glass and aluminum headquarters is the biggest: it has the biggest bank vault in the biggest underground banking area, the biggest automated check-sorting operation, the biggest air-conditioning unit. Even its 8,800 windows are oversized, "so people can look in and see bankers and so bankers can look...
...brainchild of Chase Manhattan's personable president, David Rockefeller, 45, the new building unmistakably bears the Rockefeller touch. To decorate it, Rockefeller sparked the purchase of $500,000 worth of art, ranging from African primitives to a rectangle of muted colors by Abstractionist Kenzo Okada. In Rockefeller's private washroom hangs a color lithograph by Cezanne...
...Rockefeller tradition is also evident in the building's location: when consolidation of nine different Chase offices into one building was first considered, many Chase executives favored a move to midtown Manhattan. But Rockefeller argued for the island's rundown southern tip, set a hopeful trend for New York's congested financial district by insisting that two-thirds of his bank's two-block site must be given over to a tree-lined plaza. Between the new Chase Bank and other renewal projects for which he is pressing (the chief one: a world trade center...