Word: stints
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...soon after the oil boom burst over the country. As the new riches sparked a spurt of building. Mendoza's company grew to dominate the construction-products market. An enlightened businessman. Mendoza realized that what was good for Venezuela was also good for him. In a brief stint as Minister of Development during World War II, he helped enact the laws that formed the basis for the precedent-shattering 50-50 formula that guaranteed Venezuela at least half the profits of the oil companies doing business in the country...
...coach Jack McCloskey has had weather problems earlier this year, and was unable to get his team out-of-doors as early as he would have liked. This may help to account for the 6-1 trouncing that Penn received at the hands of the Midshipmen on their Southern stint. On the other hand, Navy is a leading contender for the EIBL crown this year and is undefeated to date...
This year "Happy" Chandler is running for Governor, an office he has held twice before (1935-39, 1955-59) in a career that includes a stint in the U.S. Senate (1939-45) and a notably unhappy period as commissioner of major league baseball (1945-51). Opposing Chandler in the May 28 Democratic primary is Lawyer Edward T. Breathitt Jr., 38, who has the backing of Incumbent Governor Bert Combs. Old Happy is pretty much ignoring Breathitt (pronounced breath-it) and is popping his cork at Combs...
...ankles, and from the audience he looks like an aging seaman sending semaphore signals to some distant ship. The Boston has the longest season of all (50 weeks), including Tanglewood in the summer and-for the 92 members willing to play Viennese waltzes and champagne music-a stint with Arthur Fiedler's Boston Pops...
Yaleman Cruikshank, who succeeded the founder in 1936, had himself started another school near by after a teaching stint at Hopkins and The Gunnery. But the Taft job looked better: a no-frills school stressing math, Latin, plain hard work, with Taft family money to keep it improving. In Cruikshank's years, this formula has educated more than 2,000 boys, most of them rock-ribbed Republicans, though Taftmen also include such fugitive Democrats as New York City's Mayor Robert F. Wagner. Academically Yale-feeding Taft is as solid as ever, with 40% of its boys taking...