Word: chases
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This time Wayne was rescued by Screenwriter Borden Chase, who created a role that Wayne could play, he predicted, "for the next 20 years." The movie was Red River, a western version of Mutiny on the Bounty with the range as the ocean and John Wayne as a pistoled and Stetsoned Captain Bligh. Wayne was at last allowed to play his age (41). Like a man loosening his belt and taking off his tie after a day in the office, the Duke was relaxed, secure and solid. The kid had gone respectable and become a father. Red River...
...Stanford, where student radicals are developing plans for a week-long series of demonstrations to be held during the International Industrial Conference at San Francisco in September. The conference will bring together 500 heads of major industrial, technological and financial firms like U.S. Steel, IBM, Royal/Dutch Petroleum and the Chase Manhattan Bank in a top level gathering that the students say "is designed to consolidate the dominion of the multinational corporations in the third world...
...Sioux) share a common distinction. They were all once pictured on U.S. currency that has since gone out of circulation. Now they will be joined in the banknote bonevard by four less obscure historical figures: Presidents William McKinley, James Madison and Grover Cleveland, and Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase. The Treasury is stopping production of $500 (McKinley), $1,000 (Cleveland), $5,000 (Madison) and $10,000 (Chase) bills; demand for the big notes, first authorized primarily for dealings between banks in 1918, has dropped to a trickle because of checks and computers. For the vast majority who have never folded...
...seeds of civilization were sown. Out of the sharing and reciprocity demanded by the hunt, and out of the division of labor between male and female, arose the human family. The hunter's first symmetrical weapons were the antecedents of technology. By domesticating the dog for the chase, the hunter may have opened his eyes to the possibility of domesticating the prey. "Grinding and boiling may have been the necessary preconditions to the discovery of agriculture," write Anthropologists Sherwood L. Washburn and C. S. Lancaster of the University of California's Berkeley campus. "One can easily imagine that...
...just above the horizon. But, since the days of the good, impressionistic sentence are over, it is difficult to assign any particular emotion to the event. For, in a very real sense, the particular sphere in question has become just another suburb, and like Wellesley or Westchester or Chevy Chase, it is there, separated from us only by the difficulties of transportation...