Word: chases
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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MIDNIGHT is A PLACE. 287 pages. Viking. $6.95. ARABEL'S RAVEN. 118 pages. Doubleday. $4.95. Both by Joan Aiken. The author of that incomparable melodrama The Wolves of Willoughby Chase has two remarkably different books out this year, both splendid. Midnight Is a Place is a savage yet romantic tale about what befalls a boy and girl, suddenly homeless and penniless, in a terrifyingly real and at the same time satisfyingly imaginary industrial city in 19th century Britain. This smoke-filled place is appropriately called Blastburn. Among other chores for survival, the girl collects cigar butts from gutters...
...Chase N. Peterson '52, vice president for alumni affairs and development, explained yesterday that when Ward M. Canaday '07 agreed a year and a half ago to pay for the dormitory, only about half of the gift was delivered then in liquid assets and property...
Edwards quoted a member of the family, John D. (Jay) Rockefeller IV, about David Rockefeller, chairman of the Chase Manhattan Bank: "He may be the most powerful man in the country." Rocky replied that Jay also said, "Rockefellers always get their way." Jay, in fact, was defeated when he ran as the Democratic candidate for Governor of West Virginia in 1972. Pressured to ask other members of the Rockefeller family to reveal their financial holdings, Nelson said, hesitantly, that he would give...
...Chase N. Peterson '52, vice-president of alumni and development, said last night that solicitation at the game was acceptable, "if it's well-organized and the money gets to the good cause." However, Peterson added, "there is a problem. If you have one charity do it, how do you ever draw the line...
...Chase N. Peterson '52, vice president for alumni affairs and development, said yesterday that his office will not ask Ward M. Canaday '07 to finance the near-$300,000 cost overrun on the construction of Canaday Hall...