Word: stints
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last Thursday, after a two-month stint as an associate fellow of the Center for International Affairs, Hume returned to his wife and five children and the same Catholic section of Derry where he was raised. Northern Ireland remains a violence-charged tragedy, where extremist Catholic and Protestant gunmen roam the streets and more moderate elements seem incapable of bringing peace to the area. And Hume's native Bogside might well be the heart of this tragedy: since the violent outbreaks of 1969 in Ulster, 103 politically-motivated murders have been committed in the area within a half-mile...
...ship heaved and groaned so much that some feared it would tear apart. Others fretted about the Soviet spy trawlers that were frequently spotted. Says Joe Rodriguez, who was recruited for the mission out of a Hollywood hairdressing salon because he had served a Navy stint on an aircraft carrier: "We worried about capture. We used to joke in the engine room about Roosky women and what they do with civilian spies." An oiler on the Glomar, Rodriguez is the first crew member to talk publicly about Project Jennifer...
Grandpa Winston used to hobnob with the high and mighty at No. 10 Downing Street, but Granddaughter Arabella Churchill seems to prefer less lofty companionship. After a two-year stint of fund raising for leper colonies and another two years breeding sheep in Wales, she has now moved into an abandoned slum building in West London and opened a low-priced restaurant for some 200 fellow squatters and other neighborhood residents. "I've always wanted to do something like this," says Arabella, 27. "We don't want to make a profit. We just want to give good meals...
...statehouse for the Democrats. A prostatehood candidate won office in Puerto Rico. A generally youthful group of G.O.P. hopefuls scored impressive wins in Delaware, Illinois and Vermont. The Republicans also re-elected their popular chief executive in Indiana, and returned to office for the third straight two-year stint Archconservative Meldrim Thomson of New Hampshire on his single plank -no taxes. Democratic incumbents were re-elected in Arkansas, Montana and North Dakota, while new candidates won in Missouri, Rhode Island, Utah, Washington and West Virginia. A fresh face also won in North Carolina, where James Hunt, a New South Democrat...
...Kong story were taken by John Bryson, former assistant picture editor of LIFE magazine, who was on the set for much of the last year. Richard Schickel, who wrote the story, is a movie historian as well as a critic. In fact, he has just completed a nine-month stint as coproducer and writer of Life Goes to the Movies, a three-hour TV retrospective of movies made between 1936 and 1972, which will be shown on NBC Oct. 31. "I saw hundreds of old movies for the LIFE project," says Schickel, "and was reminded that there was an innocent...