Word: chases
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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REPORTER- RESEARCHERS: Rosemary Byrnes, Ursula Nadasdy de Gallo, Brigid O' Hara- Forster, Victoria Sales (Department Heads); Audrey Ball, Bernard Baumohl, Peggy T. Berman, Val Castronovo, Nancy McD. Chase, Oscar Chiang, Georgia Harbison, Michael P. Harris, Anne Hopkins, Naushad S. Mehta, Nancy Newman, Jeanne- Marie North, Susan M. Reed, Elizabeth Rudulph, Alain L. Sanders, Zona Sparks, William Tynan, Susanne Washburn (Senior Staff); Wilmer Ames Jr., David Bjerklie, Elizabeth L. Bland, Kathleen Brady, Robert I. Burger, Barbara Burke, Wendy Cole, Tom Curry, Nelida Gonzalez Cutler, Sally B. Donnelly, Andrea Dorfman, David Ellis, Kathryn Jackson Fallon, Mary McC. Fernandez, Cassie T. Furgurson, John...
...sport has contributed the rest. The Harvard hockey program, which--along with Brown--is the oldest intercollegiate hockey program in the nation, continually produces some of the best players on the U.S. Olympic hockey team. Harvard has been well represented on the Olympic ice since 1932. when John Chase '28, and John Garrison, '31, coached by Alfred Winsor '02, took the silver medal at Lake Placid...
...Chase's murder followed months of controversy in which black leaders have sharply criticized the police for using their guns too readily. In 1986 Dallas ranked first among the nation's eleven largest cities in the per capita incidence of police shootings (30, with ten deaths). Such controversial killings, including the shooting of an elderly black woman on her front porch, prompted congressional hearings last year...
Racial roles were reversed in the murder of Officer Chase. Police Chief Billy Prince charged that "constant bashing" of his officers had contributed to Chase's death. Many blacks joined whites in showing their sympathy with the police by tying black ribbons to car antennas and driving with their lights on. Some 3,000 people attended a memorial service in Dallas, including officers from 117 cities...
Despite his wealth, Icahn is not about to be distracted from the chase by a taste for rich people's toys. Says he: "Yachts and fleets of limousines and private airplanes don't appeal to me at all. I want a comfortable life. What's the point of all that hassle?" The only son of a New York City schoolteacher and a lawyer, Icahn was the first student from Far Rockaway High School in Queens to be accepted by Princeton, where he studied philosophy. His mother worried about his future when he dropped out of medical school...