Word: chases
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...companies drilling offshore in the South China Sea shut down their rigs and evacuated American personnel in company planes. Some members of an oil-company rigging crew may have headed straight for Singapore in their workboat. Local branch managers for Chase Manhattan, First National City and Bank of America chartered a Pan Am 707 and flew to Hong Kong for "consultations" despite U.S. embassy protests that their departure was premature. In fact, it was ordered by then-head offices. Said B. of A. Vice President Andrew Boudewyn in San Francisco: "We wanted to evacuate them before...
Sexily Luscious. Director Frank Corsaro has staged Die Tote Stadt as a brilliant, psychologically adroit multimedia show. Movie and slide projectors play on the front scrim. Four slide projectors illuminate a scrim in the rear. Corsaro and Cinematographer Ronald Chase spread a series of images that are at times dazzling in their three-dimensional effect-grotesque faces, Gothic walls and towers, eerie grottoes, flowers, woodlands. The production opens, for example, on the exterior of Paul's house. Then, through the masonry, the portrait of Marie begins to shine. The lights come up behind the scrim in Paul...
...outcome of the crucial showdown repaid a debt which has been bothering the Pennsylvania club for almost a year now, ever since the Crimson nine swept a critical doubleheader in Philadelphia to eliminate the Quakers from the 1974 title chase. The key last year was a spectacular pitching duel which saw Harvard's Milt Holt upset Muhlstock, 2-1, but yesterday's battle saw a new ending to the script...
...short time since Harvard received the grants, the Japanese money has all but dried up. "It is an uphill battle now," Vogel says citing Japanese inflation and exorbitant oil prices that have caused many Japanese doors to close on University fund-raising efforts. But Dr. Chase N. Peterson '52, vice president for alumni affairs and development, says the University has now placed East Asian Studies second only to President Bok's recently announced public policy program on the priority list of fund-raising efforts. By doing that, Bok has taken the work out of the hands of the professors--many...
...week's end Patty Hearst remained at large, and the long chase continued as the FBI hunted for clues in Pennsylvania and California. The elder Scott was to testify this week before the San Francisco grand jury. The New York Times reported that Jack Scott had phoned one of its reporters to say that his lawyer "was discussing his situation with federal authorities." The Times also said that Scott "implied" he knew something about Patty's activities since last June. Declared a Justice Department official: "The FBI agents are convinced that Scott-if he were willing-could lead...