Word: stints
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strong stint will shove any of these three to the fore of Shepard's thinking, especially after the poor showings Saturday at Penn by Jim McCandlish and John Scott, the mainstays of last year's Crimson staff...
Persons & Commodities. In the Georgia slaying, Penn, a Negro who directed vocational schools in the District of Columbia, was gunned down while driving to Washington after a two-week Army Reserve stint at Fort Benning, Ga. A pair of admitted Klansmen, Joseph H. Sims and Cecil W. Myers, were charged with the killing and acquitted of murder in a state court. Federal attorneys subsequently accused them of violating Section 241, but, like Mississippi's Cox, Federal District Judge W. A. Bootle of Macon dismissed the charges...
...diplomatically decided that a joint session was called for. Executing such arrangements would be delicate even for old protocol hands. Yet this week's state visit-the first ever by a woman Premier-marked a last-minute premiere for a novice. Unruffled, James Wadsworth Symington recalls his stint as a Marine private. Said he: "You learn that you always 'land running...
...Poland and seven months before the blitzkrieg through Belgium and The Netherlands, that Germany had "no aim to wage a war of offense," but later scooping fellow newsmen on the Hitler-Eva Braun suicide pact and becoming one of the best spotters of Communist subterfuge during a 20-year stint at the United Nations; of a heart attack...
Next year Bullitt sets forth from his Widener cubicle for a one-year stint with the Peace Corps. In June, he leaves for Washington to polish up his newly-acquired Spanish--he is taking Spanish Bab and working at it--and to learn about Latin American culture. That done, he will leave for a South American country, probably Peru, to become Peace Corps Deputy Representative there. In that position, he will be helping volunteers get settled and happy in their work. But, for all its forms and tests, the Peace Corps is pretty much a catch as catch can affair...