Word: chases
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chase...
...also say that "everything returns" in the same breath--the logic isn't clear) "like the river"--a direct steal from Heraclitus's idea that one never steps into the same river twice. At any rate the logic of the film reveals that one should not fight time, or chase wealth, but live in the present and for the moment. There are no "goals": do not grasp and you will not suffer...
...moment, I wanted to chase after him. I didn't want the CBS announcer to cut in with the information I already knew--that Alabama was now the nation's undisputed number one team for 1973; that the Tide was undefeated and untied in 11 games; that Bear had just won his 140th game with Alabama, and was taking them to their 15th consecutive bowl game. I didn't want to hear his glib platitude: "I think we'll have to say that Southern football is something to behold." Who was he telling...
...great bank robberies of all time was pulled off early this month without a hint that it was happening. The loot was not cash but $15.3 million in negotiable Treasury bills. The certificates simply vanished from a locked and guarded room at headquarters of the Chase Manhattan Bank during normal business hours. Last week the FBI and New York City detectives were still looking for the bills and for clues...
...Chase job made 1973 a banner year for Wall Street's outlaw satellite, the market in hot stocks, bonds and other securities. The total take is enormous. W. Henry DuPont, chairman of a firm that keeps track of missing securities, estimates that $50 billion in illegitimate paper is afloat, most of it blue-chip stocks and some of it federal, state, municipal and corporate bonds. Insurance companies are the ultimate victims. They must make good to any insured bank or brokerage house that takes a loss by theft or by buying hot securities in good faith. Most banks...