Word: chases
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Birdie ranges farthest, and perhaps most enjoyably, afield when Dancer Rivera crashes a Shriners' dinner and starts a small Keystone Comedy chase, now around the table, now on it, now under it. One reason why Birdie lands on its feet is that it is so seldom off them. People rarely sit, or even stand still; they drop funny remarks hastening in one direction, not so funny ones fleeing in another. Musically the show travels rather light, once or twice with an empty suitcase. But Bye Bye Birdie successfully elevates freshness above slickness, playfulness above workmanship, and can boast...
...Thurber Carnival. The men, women and dogs that chase one another through Humorist James Thurber's mind come yakking and yipping to the stage in a grand, slightly bland evening...
...holding companies to buy banks in the fast-growing suburbs of Westchester and Nassau counties. Efforts of Manhattan bankers to change the law have always been blocked by a coalition of small-town Republicans and solid Democratic opposition in the state legislature. Among the caged banking Goliaths: the Chase Manhattan (assets: $8.5 billion), whose vice chairman is David Rockefeller, brother of New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller...
...Grumbled Westchester County Supervisor Arnold D. Roseman: "It's the rape of Westchester." Arthur T. Roth, chairman of the Franklin National Bank of Long Island and a bitter opponent of the bill, pointedly asked Governor Rockefeller whether "an eleventh-hour emergency plea issued on a bill that favors Chase Manhattan isn't a conflict of interest." Replied Rockefeller: he had sold his 18,000 Chase Manhattan shares last January...
...March 19 John Gunther's High Road (ABC, 8-8:30 p.m.). Restless John goes to sea, begins a two-part report on the commercial chase after tuna...