Word: chases
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have to begin with the Beacon Hill. Hidden away by itself on the north end of Tremont Street, across from the burial ground of King's Chapel, lies the most risque' of the Sack Theatres. Perhaps because its marquee is removed from sight of the proper old ladies who chase pigeons off the Common, the Beacon Hill was the first to specialize in the now ubiquitous "recommended for mature audiences" film. Ever since Tom Jones broke house records, the theatre has presented Sack's more "sophisticated" movies. The mature audiences--possibly, the same ones who wear those tight jeans--seem...
After the shooting, the man called Willard was seen rushing out of the rooming house; the rifle and a ditty bag were found on the street; witnesses reported that the white car tore away at top speed. Amid the confusion, a mysterious radio call described a continuing police chase after the Mustang. The chase went one way, the Mustang another, and the broadcast later was discovered to have been a fake. The killer had been given his chance to escape...
...Piet Hanema alone, the chase into neighborly beds comes close to the course of tragedy. Unlike the others he is hounded not only by lust, curiosity and boredom but by a terrible sense of time fleeing. He is haunted by the past by shepherds paralyzed in webs of lead his boyhood Dutch Reformed Church, by his father's rough hands tending the fragile flowers in his greenhouse, most of all by his parents' death in an automobile accident. ("Piet pictured shattered glass strewn across the road...
...book about Harvard, Kahn can be expected to treat the University in its own terms, through the words and acts of its own people, with little regard for the University as a social force. He treated David Rockefeller, president of the Chase Manhattan Bank, in the same limited way in a two-part New Yorker profile in 1965. Kahn quoted President Pusey, Rockefeller's banking associates and several statesmen on Rockefeller, and Rockefeller himself on the value of hard work. He did not even approach the question of what it means to be David Rockefeller, billionaire banker...
...Corporation, reliable sources indicate, offered the post to David Rockefeller '36, president of the Chase Manhatten Bank and president of the Harvard Board of Overseers, but, the sources say, Rockefeller turned it down because it requires too much time. Pusey and several members of the Corporation refused to comment on this...