Word: chases
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...decolonization. The ad--signed by Ronald Webster, chairman of the Anguilla Island Council, but largely written by Howard Gossage, a San Francisco ad man--promised honorary Anguillian citizenship to Americans who contributed $100 to the fledgling state, and told prospective contributors to send money to "The Anguilla Trust Fund, Chase Manhattan Bank, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands...
...away from their jobs in a succession of stolen cars-their Ford coupes, Essex tourer and Marmon Saloon are virtually living members of the cast. The sound track adds a further fillip to the humor; the exuberant banjo picking of Earl Scruggs playing Foggy Mountain Breakdown suggests a comedy chase...
...director, Beatty signed up Arthur Penn, 45, a narrow, sparrowish Broadway veteran (Two For the Seesaw), whose Hollywood record included a few hits (The Miracle Worker), several flops (The Chase, Mickey One). Penn wanted the film edited in Manhattan, which meant that the choice of which scenes would end up on the cutting-room floor would take place 2,500 miles from the home base of Warner Bros. To Jack Warner, 75, who liked to make his own pick of the rushes, everything but salami should be cut in the studio. More problems were to follow-arguments about sound, music...
...have a way of dawning fast. In Boston last week, the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination agreed to hear complaints by eleven Negroes that General Motors had bypassed them and made junior white employees foremen in its Framingham, Mass., Fisher Body plant. In New York, 14 Negro employees accused the Chase Manhattan Bank of discriminating against their advancement to computer training...
Statistics like these suggest that getting into Harvard may depend on what your alumni interviewer had for lunch. Which is not too far from the truth. Dr. Chase N. Peterson, now Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid, says, "We are justified and obligated to trust a hunch...