Word: chases
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...business has turned patron in a big way, partly out of tax leniencies, partly out of a new sense of community responsibility. Last year U.S. business supported culture to the tune of $25 million and is expected to spend 10% more in 1964. Chase Manhattan Bank has a $500,000 collection of modern art and gives some $350,000 a year to educational and cultural projects. The Basic-Witz Furniture Co. of Waynesboro, Va., commissioned a concerto by Robert Evett for its 75th anniversary, and General Motors recently sent its employees 600,000 copies of two booklets: French Impressionism...
...Birch churned to a first in the 200-yard backstroke in 2:15, a race from which Merritt expected only third. Merritt also credited Rich Tompkins and Peter Alter with good performances under pressure. The Crimson's iron men against Army were Shrout, Peter Adams, Steve Coy, and Phil Chase, each of whom swam two events and then combined to form the relay tearn that decided the meet in the final race...
...Many years ago," observed Maine's Senator Margaret Chase Smith, 66, at a dinner in Manhattan, "the word square was one of the most honored words in our vocabulary. The square deal was an honest deal. A square meal was a full and good meal. It was the square shooter rather than the sharpshooter who was admired. What is a square today? He's the fellow who never learned to get away with it, who gets choked up when the flag unfurls. There has been too much glorification of the angle players, the corner cutters, and the goof...
Canada sells 65% of her trees to the U.S., where Christmas tree sales have soared into a $155 million annual business. Now, a Chase Manhattan Bank survey points out, artificial trees have taken over 35% of that total and are raising their share of it rapidly. Unlike the cheap and flimsy creations of old, most of the artificial trees are apt to be polyvinyl wonders that resemble the real thing in all but falling needles and forest smell. They are not only flameproof-one big selling point-crush-proof and fadeproof, but can be stored away...
...freshmen contest, four of Coach Benn Merritt's swimmers swam three events each as the Yardlings beat the Plebes 53-42, winning in the final relay. The four, Phil Chase, Stephen Coy, Peter Adams, and Bill Shrout scored 34 points together and took the freestyle without trouble...