Word: stints
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...want to be yawl's Senatuh''). anointed heir to the conservative Democrat legions of exiled ex-Governor Allan Shivers. Blakley was appointed by Shivers to warm the senatorial seat between Daniel's departure and the special election that put Yarborough in. After that 103-day stint he did not stand for election-probably on Shivers' orders. Probably at Shivers' request -and surrounded by ex-Shivers speechmakers and advisers-he is running...
...this surf opera is 19-year-old Jordan Moore, a button-bright blonde girl who dreams of carving a career niche in the great stone face of Manhattan. When she hears that the "mass media" set spends its summers on Phoenix Island, Jordan signs on for a baby-tending stint with a one-child family named French-an experience that gradually turns into Operation Mad Ball...
...powers he wanted within the day -and did so by one of the biggest majorities (462 to 112) accorded any French Premier since World War II. Pflimlin brought in as Minister of the Interior 65-year-old Socialist Jules Moch, who won fame in an earlier cold war stint in the Interior Ministry as a merciless...
...Franco intended that after his death the boy should rule Spain. Since then, presumably under Franco's soldierly guidance, Juan Carlos has become a one-man unified armed force. He graduated as a second lieutenant from Spain's West Point at Saragossa, and after his present navy stint he will enter the Spanish Air Academy...
...Manhattan's Knoedler Galleries are 29 sculptures with a vastly different intent. Paris Sculptor Etienne Hajdu, 50, born in Rumania of Hungarian parents, first approached his work under the inspiration of Abstractionists Fernand Leger and Brancusi. A wartime stint as a laborer in a Pyrenees marble quarry and an abrupt shift back to the position that "man is wonderful" gave him a new material and new goal...