Word: stints
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...citizenry, Flag Day usually ranks somewhere between Arbor Day and groundhog day, but Denver managed to come up with a bit of the old whoop and whistle last week. Some 20,000 people lined the streets as Lieut. General Lew Walt, 54, just back from his two-year stint as commanding officer of the Marines in Viet Nam, perched on the rear seat of a 1912 International Autowagon and led a parade of school bands, color guards, flag-waving children and the 70-man Marine Recruit Depot Band. Rousing as it all was, the real kick for Walt...
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...