Word: stints
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unmannered, uneducated son of an immigrant fisherman. The Depression is therefore a kind of blessing for Lavette, because it stops the game. Instead of jumping out of the window of his office to splatter on the streets of San Francisco when stock prices begin to plummet, Lavette, after a stint as a bum, leaves his business suits in storage and contentedly returns to the life of a fisherman, the life his father and countless generations before him had known...
...Managing Editor of TIME is Ray Cave. After 17 years of writing and editing at SPORTS ILLUSTRATED and a stint as Acting Editorial Director of all Time Inc. publications, Cave, 48, joined TIME in 1976 as an Assistant Managing Editor. Says Editor-in-Chief Donovan: "Cave is an editor of great enterprise and imagination, and I am confident that he will continue TIME in its lively and informative ways...
...years ago, though, the man who has won more Ivy games and championships than anyone else decided to play ball with the big boys and while his six-year stint at Illinois was by no means a disaster, nobody at Michigan or Ohio State was seen shaking in his cleats...
...final question is, then: What will it look like in the future? As the University police undergo more and more professional training--a regimen that now includes a stint at the state police academy, classes in arrest and booking procedures, and frequent firearms practice--the tendency would seem to be towards a more efficient but less student-oriented force. Yet while William L. Backman, coordinator of training for the department, agrees that the force is changing, unavoidably moving away from the fatherly mode, he maintains it is still possible for the department to retain its distinctive character as a campus...
...recent years, Colgate has been a windfall for Crimson coaches even if the Red Raiders showed little of the milk of human kindness Saturday on the football field. Joe Restic did a stint as Colgate's offensive coordinator from 1959-62 while O'Neill, who is currently Harvard's defensive coordinator, was an assistant coach at Colgate from 1964-72. Horan, who is the Crimson's offensive backfield coach, left Colgate to come to Cambridge seven years ago, the same year that Restic first arrived on the scene. O'Neill came to Harvard the following year after Horan brought...