Word: chases
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Glimp succeeds Dr. Chase N. Peterson '52, who left the University six months ago to become vice president for health affairs at the University of Utah. President Bok said yesterday that he has carried out the vice president's duties himself during the half-year search, rather than appoint an acting vice president...
...Chase Stone Annapolis...
...issues growing so pregnant demanded a press conference, so the President held one. The Business Council, meeting up the street at the Mayflower Hotel and stuffed with such luminaries as Du Font's Irving Shapiro and Chase Manhattan's David Rockefeller, required equal wattage from the White House. After a long, tough day, Carter took the podium at nearly 9 p.m. with a smile and a confession: "Your own influence at times might be even underestimated by you." He talked and answered questions for nearly an hour, a worthwhile effort, as he calculated it, for his anti-inflation...
Lying in the vault were about 50 Ibs. of paper money from the Commerzbank of Frankfurt to the Chase Manhattan Bank. It was a treasure far bigger than the $2.78 million taken in the Brink's holdup of 1950, bigger even than the $4.3 million Purolator heist in 1974 in Chicago. The Lufthansa bandits' haul: about $5 million in American dollars, nearly $1 million in jewelry, as well as an undetermined amount of foreign currency...
...that an employee may have tipped off the robbers to Lufthansa's treasure. Apparently it was there by a fluke. The money was scheduled to be transferred from Kennedy into Manhattan on the Friday before the heist, but when a Brink's truck arrived to take the money to Chase Manhattan, the Lufthansa foreman was too busy directing another shipment to open the vault. Some investigators think that there may have been a conspiracy to keep the money at the facility over the weekend...