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Educated at Wesleyan and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Wriston has had a hand in much of First National City's expansion. The son of Henry Merritt Wriston, longtime (1937-55) president of Brown University, he joined the bank in 1946 after a stint in the foreign service and wartime Army duty, has headed the bank's sprawling overseas division since 1959. Amiably informal and scornful of organization charts-"We all work together," he says, "and when I'm in trouble I ask somebody, and when I'm not I don't"-Wriston...
...operate the machine, then enlisted other tenants on a rotation watch schedule. In many another highrise, kids gleefully took over the elevator controls. One East Side boy, pressed into service to spare his parents' dinner guests the rigors of the stairway, demanded-and got - $1 for his stint behind the lever...
This will be the Prince's second stint away from home -- he earlier spent five years at Eton in England. That was the first time in the history of Nepal that a member of the royal family had been given permission to study outside the country...
Peters walked four in his five-inning stint -- two in each of the visitors' big rallies. He only gave up five hits but, due to the walks, each hit was costly...
...thesis came under considerable fire during his stint at the Kennedy Institute. Some stressed the incompatibility of labor's long-run interests with those of the Negro, especially on the local level. Others stressed the exigencies of Vietnam and the need to ally with peace groups. (Rustin, whose career as a pacifist stems back to a jail sentence in 1943 for conscientious objection, chuckled noticeably.) Rustin's response was twofold: he agreed with those who stressed the contributions of the peace movement and the qualifications upon his proposed alliance; but he also expressed concern about the possibility of a more...