Word: stints
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thunderous lectures on white exploitation of Southern blacks, including the abuse of black women, Brownmiller recalls, "I heard for the first time in my life that rape was a political act." She joined the civil rights movement, working two years in Mississippi as a summer volunteer. After a brief stint as a TV reporter in Philadelphia, she signed on as a Village Voice staff writer...
This would be easily explicable if one were talking about the original Riders, the child of the Grateful Dead set up when Garcia wanted a chance to play a lot of steel guitars. Deserts are psychedelic. But Garcia soon left the band, and after a stint touring with the Dead, the Riders began to work up a following of their own. But by this time, sans Garcia, they'd lost their spatial the dimension--their music became more linear and descriptive, more ridin-my-pony-to-San-Antone, with that Buddy Gage steel soaring nimbly overhead...
Inside Access. Beecher is no stranger to scoops. A lifelong newspaperman except for his stint at the Pentagon-which he left with a Distinguished Service Medal to return to journalism-he was once a defense specialist for the New York Times, where he scored major beats on the secret U.S. bombing of Cambodia in 1969 and the SALT talks in 1971. But some Government officials have strong suspicions about this latest coup. Beecher, they suspect, may have been using material he recollected from his Government days to write the article. Beecher flatly denies the insinuation. "My story," he insists...
Next week Eddie (Lockjaw) Davis comes to town with a six-day stint at Sandy's Jazz Revival. Joe Williams is playing there now, Reservations are recommended for both shows. Sandy's is at 54 Cabot street in Beverly...
...year career in Italian politics, feisty little (5 ft. 4 in.) Amintore Fanfani, 67, has been sometimes down and almost out. He has also been Premier three times, a Cabinet minister in seven governments other than his own, and twice secretary (party leader) of the Christian Democrats, including a stint for the past two years. Last week his leadership of the Christian Democrats, Italy's largest party, ended abruptly. At an emergency national council of the party, Fanfani, whose conglomeration of nicknames Includes "the Tuscan Pony," "the Pint-Sized Napoleon," "Little Caesar" and "il Padrino " (the godfather) was booted...