Word: chases
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hardest to land was Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon. Kennedy never considered a liberal for the Treasury post, sought his men almost exclusively in the ranks of conservative bankers. World Bank President Eugene Black, 62, was easily the most admired prospect, but after John McCloy, board chairman of the Chase Manhattan Bank, and Lovett refused the lure, Kennedy decided that Republican Dillon was his man, and went after him personally. Once last week the President-elect went to the length of going secretly to Dillon's Washington home. Dillon accepted only after checking Dwight Eisenhower and Dick Nixon to make...
...long chase proves that Author Ustinov has not yet mastered the art of creating suspense, but it does give him a chance to do what he does best : hold up national types to clever, cynical scrutiny. His police colonel is cast as a stock Italian official, part scoundrel, part ingratiating humanist, both parts cemented by Machiavellian guile. The head of the German escape ring could be found in Central Casting along with all the lesser characters...
...economists for U.S. corporations agreed that a further decline in overall business can be expected during the early months of 1961, with a recovery in the year's second half. About one-third thought the economy would get its main stimulus from Government spending. V. Stevens Hastings, Chase Manhattan Bank economist, looked ahead and liked what he saw: "The fact that the 1958 to mid-1960 upswing was less than normal does not affect the outlook for the '60s. The next upswing is just as likely to be greater than normal...
...Been a Mild, Delicate Night, by Tom Kaye. The woman in the London town house is a neoclassic nymph, the tramp who pursues her is clearly a satyr, and the author's story of the chase is a myth as good as a mile of realistic novels...
...Beacon Hill, legislators from Cambridge have already introduced bills to facilitate sale or lease of the land to Sullivan and Chase, who recently promoted construction of the Treadway Motor (on stilts) in Brattle Sq. There has been speculation that success of the new might lead to closing of the MTA in Harvard...