Word: stints
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Oakland, Calif., all found jobs in the same company last week-as U.S. Army paratroopers. The 44, nearly all from poor families, volunteered as a unit, and have been assigned to a special platoon at Fort Lewis, Wash., where they were sent for basic training. Probably because of their stint at the Job Corps center, they averaged several points higher than the norm on the induction test. Without that added education, said Recruiting Sergeant Darryl Adkins-himself a veteran paratrooper-only one out of four might have qualified for the airborne elite...
...HOME AT THE PALACE (ABC). Judy should be living at home in a mansion reading her fan mail, occasionally demonstrating her still top-rate abilities as a comedienne on television and encouraging the careers of her talented children. But she played the Palace again last summer, and that stint, while exhibiting her still vibrant showmanship, displayed only a shadow of the Garland voice: her famous catch-in-the-throat turned into mere hoarseness, and even her magnificent sense of pitch and timing occasionally failed her. This album is a shockingly honest record of her opening night last July. For those...
Because they often combine their altruistic attitudes toward service with vociferous antipathy to the Viet Nam war, Peace Corps volunteers have sometimes been accused of dodging the draft. But Vaughn, a World War II Marine officer, ridicules the charge, pointing out that their two-year stint abroad is a deferment, not a substitute for military service. Many are called up when they return home. Draft boards have even recalled 38 corpsmen from overseas, and Vaughn fumes over the money wasted training volunteers who are inducted before they complete Peace Corps service. The real reason so many young people choose...
Four years ago, when Chief Petty Officer Bud Cowsill retired from a 20-year stint in the Navy, he decided that his four singing, drumming and guitar-playing sons were ready for more than charity shows and family concerts. He teamed the boys up with their pert "mini-Mom," Barbara, took on the other two Cowsill sons as road managers and sound engineers, and along with a four-year-old baby sister set off into the professional music world. Bud enforced taut Navy discipline: the kids had to keep up with their studies, practice two hours daily to build...
...Pipes. Attracted by ads in the Israeli press and in the Observer of London, some 5,000 volunteers from 28 different countries traveled to Israel at their own expense over a two-year period to help professional archaeologists in a massive excavation of Masada. During the two-week stint allowed to each of the amateur archaeologists, they rose at 4:30 a.m. and worked ten-hour days in temperatures that ranged from below freezing to more than 90° F. The volunteers lived at the base of Masada in tents that were occasionally blown away by fierce desert winds, used...