Word: chases
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crowded corridors of the Capitol Building, where returning Congressmen jostled painters touching up the Brumidi frescoes, buzzed through the downtown Democratic clubs and patronage offices, rang out in the lilt of High Hopes and Walking Down to Washington among the New Year's Eve dancers at Chevy Chase Club and in the jammed hotel ballrooms. Along Pennsylvania Avenue, workmen rushed new tiers of spectator stands for John Fitzgerald Kennedy's inaugural parade, and the requests for tickets reached blizzard stage...
Group II. Into this unpromising assemblage-thanks in part to the presence of ill-starred Star Tallulah Bankhead and Co-Producer Roger Stevens-falls Midgie Purvis, a comedy by Mary (Harvey) Chase. Similarly tainted: Rhinoceros, which combines previously unsuccessful Producer Leo Kerz and unpredictable (three for seven) Director Joseph Anthony with an unknown commercial quantity, Playwright Eugene Ionesco...
...Murray Gell-Mann, at 31 one of the brightest new stars of U.S. science, "think that one of the most exciting things the human race can do is to understand the laws of nature. It is sad that it is so hard for others to follow us in this chase...
...especial importance to cosmologists in their struggle to figure out how the universe was formed. They are fairly common, and they seem to extend indefinitely into the depths of space, rushing away faster and faster in proportion to their distance from the earth. Radio astronomy may be able to chase them close to the "edge of the knowable universe," where they will be moving away so fast that their light and radio waves cannot reach the earth at all. Long before this point is attained, the cosmologists should have evidence enough to decide whether the universe was created...
Divorced. By Ethel Merman, 51, trumpet-toned musicomedy star (Gypsy) who once boasted that she could hold a note "as long as the Chase National Bank": her third husband, Robert F. Six, 53, oilman and president of Continental Air Lines; after seven years of marriage, no children (she has two by a previous marriage); in Juarez, Mexico...