Word: chases
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...labyrinth of underground shopping arcades, sunken plaza, theaters, television studios, 25 restaurants, 70 retail stores and 50,000 daytime inhabitants of 16 slab-sided office buildings, it remains the quintessence of skyscraper civilization. Last week a combine including two Rockefeller brothers -President David of New York City's Chase Manhattan Bank and Governor Winthrop of Arkansas-brought forth plans to build a similar, if smaller, office-hotel-and-cultural complex a continent away, close to the downtown San Francisco waterfront...
From then on, the chase involves much long-distance running over life's cluttered obstacle course. A-T-A brawls with Gwen's lovers, tosspots his way to jail, suffers a sanity hearing and the mental lockup, is finally divorced by his wife, who takes his money and marries his lawyer. En route, while his teen-age daughter is aborted in Mexico and takes a Negro lover, A-T-A himself participates in enough sex romps to satisfy born voyeurs, not to say the American Gynecological Society...
With Harvard ahead, 14-11, on the strength of Howie Freedman's 6-2 decision over Eric Chase (177), it seemed that victory was in sight. But Paul Padlak (191), wrestling an extremely cautious match, lost a 3-1 decision to Julian McPhillips on a take-down with four seconds...
That is just how Chase Manhattan saw the trend. "Normally, there is a marked increase in bank loans in December," says Executive Vice President George A. Roeder Jr., "and a marked decrease in January. The December increase did not materialize." Meeting that portentous January day, Chase Manhattan's top officers also noted that interest rates had slipped as much as one percentage point from their 1966 peaks. High-grade corporate bond yields were down from 5.56% to 5%, municipal bonds from 4.26% to 3.50% and 91-day Treasury bills from 5.74% to 4.40%. the slide continued last week. Several...
...Everybody will be down to 5½%," predicted Vice President-Comptroller John W. D. Wright of International Harvester. "It's only a question of time." Said President Mark C. Wheeler of Boston's New England Merchants National Bank: "My own belief is that Chase is going to make 5½% stick. The demand for funds has been a little less and the supply of money a little larger than expected...