Word: stinted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scholarly veteran of World War II with impressive credentials in his field. Peter Draz, 42, a graduate of Denison University in Ohio, also holds master's degrees in history (University of Pennsylvania) and library science (Western Reserve). Draz came to Time Inc. after a 61-year stint at the Library of Congress, where he headed the Reader Service Section of the Manuscript Division and later the Public Refer ence Section of the General Refer ence and Bibliography Division...
...world's leading authority on ancient mythology (TIME, Feb. 11). "I teach," says Rumanian-born Eliade, "without any theological implications, and they accept it here." >NATHAN SCOTT, 40, Episcopalian, professor of theology and literature. A Detroit Negro educated at Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary, Scott did a stint of teaching at Howard before going to Chicago in 1955. His books include studies on Camus and Beckett...
...Victory carried munitions across the Pacific in the closing months of World War II. In 1950 she was reactivated to haul materiel for the Korean War. After a brief stint transporting grain to India, she was retired again. Last week the Red Oak, one of 101 Victory ships dragged out of mothballs for service in Viet Nam, was ready to sail again after a $400,000 refit and new coat of grey paint. For her rededication, Red Oak Mayor Joseph Tiffin flew to Portland, Ore., with a specially stitched town flag, which Captain Robert Blood will hoist when the ship...
...John Joseph Broderick came by his talents naturally enough. He grew up in Manhattan's East 20s, the Gashouse district, and while many of his neighbors were learning how to be thugs, Johnny, fresh from parochial school, was driving a brick truck at the age of twelve. A stint in the World War I Navy and a few months as a fireman convinced him that he was not cut out for such tame endeavors. The pug-faced Irishman joined the cops in 1923. "Gimme a gangster, give him a gun, and leave the rest to me," he used...
Threadbare Tires. A onetime editor of the Daily Princetonian, Ridgeway, 29, put in a stint on the Wall Street Journal before coming to the New Republic. He makes sure that he ge'ts his facts correct and avoids the doctrinaire "New Left" politics that fills much of the rest of the magazine. "I don't think things should be cast in black and white," he says. "These subjects are complicated and difficult to get at. What I want to do is take a point of view that is unreported and provide people with that different perspective...