Word: chases
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lockheed's auditors, fell into the hands of a Senate subcommittee investigating multinational corporations, and the subcommittee made them public. They revealed not only the Kodama connection but also a pervasive pattern of corporate influence buying: payments to Italian politicians, "gifts" to Turkish officials, and the pur chase of industrial secrets...
...this point, Hoban wisely refrains from offering a madcap chase sequence replete with careening police cars and lovably inept thieves. The escapade is indeed comic, but only in the ease with which it is pulled off. The turtle keeper does not simply agree to look the other way while his charges are stolen; he packs them into traveling crates himself. Their mission routinely accomplished, William and Neaera find that no one has noticed...
...other two vice presidents, Dr. Chase N. Peterson '52, vice president for alumni affairs and development, and financial vice president Hale Champion are not as ripe for turnover as Daly and Hall. "I don't suppose I'll be here when I retire, but that may happen," Champion said last week. But, he adds, if the "appropriate" kind of appointment would arise in a Democratic White House, he would consider taking it. One source within the administration says this about Champion: "Hale is very interested in politics and the art of government. If there is a Democratic administration...
...variety of Eastern private schools and has a degree in audio engineering, a mean rock-piano style and a reputation of sorts as a soccer player for Bard College. But it was not until last fall, when he stepped before the cameras on Saturday Night, that Cornelius ("Chevy") Chase discovered his full potential. He fell over. Slowly, gracefully and with complete abandon, Chevy's 6-ft. 4-in. frame crumpled to the floor, accompanied by the giggles, then laughs and finally roars of laughter from the studio audience...
...editor at Putnam, an old New York City publishing firm, young Chase could not decide whether to be a writer, a pianist, a drummer or an actor. Says his father: "He was a quadruple threat." So Chevy did everything. In 1971 he wrote for and acted in The Great American Dream Machine, PBS's comedy series. Then he toured with several rock bands and spent a year writing for Mad magazine. In 1973 he combined all his talents, becoming music director, writer and actor on the National Lampoon Theater Company's off-Broadway revue Lemmings, which he helped...