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...Otis Freeman, 62, was appointed president of little (750 students) Eastern Washington College of Education at Cheney two years ago, no one on the faculty wanted to complain. After all, Freeman had been a teacher of geology and geography since 1924, and his colleagues felt he deserved a quick stint in the presidency as a climax to his career. But once in office, Freeman seemed to change-and so did the attitude of his campus...
After Princeton, Stockly took on odd jobs, including a stint in a steel-mill, while pestering Pittsburgh newspapers to hire him. Finally, the Sun-Telegraph agreed to give him a job if he would work a trial month without salary. Stockly agreed, and after a month he was on the payroll at $30 a week. Eleven months later, he was off the payroll with the editor's prediction that he would never become a writer...
...Associated Press Correspondent Eddy Gilmore, just out of Moscow after a twelve-year stint, had a more realistic picture of Russian feeling: "It is as clear as the face on the Kremlin clock that throughout the Communist world tonight party members from the highest to the lowest feel the terrible hand of political terror clutching at their necks. The enormity of Mr. Beria's disgrace is an inescapable reminder that, but for fate, they might be sitting where...
...after a stint as a debate coach at Houston's Sam Houston High School, 23-year-old Lyndon Johnson advanced on Washington. He had helped in the congressional campaign of Richard Kleberg, one of the owners of the fabulous King Ranch, and Kleberg took him east as a secretary. Before long, Lyndon reorganized something called "The Little Congress," an organization of congressional employees, got himself elected "speaker," and turned a drab organization into a yeasty forum for New Deal proposals...
...eventually found in Ceylon, boarding with a bishop and teaching at the Colombo Divinity School. Next stops: Singapore, Australia, Canada and finally the U.S. In 1950, he went back to Canada, but recrossed the border and took up illegal residence. Meanwhile, armed with faked credentials, he had done a stint of teaching at Trinity College, University of Toronto...