Word: stints
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Token. Raspberry's questioning turn of mind came from his parents, both schoolteachers in the northeastern Mississippi hamlet of Okolona. After graduating from the local black high school, he entered Indiana Central College in Indianapolis and helped support himself by reporting for a local black weekly. A stint in the Army brought him to Washington, where he got a job as a teletypist for the Post. Some months later a sympathetic editor recognized Raspberry's potential as a reporter. He spent four years on civil rights stories. In 1966 he got a chance as a columnist...
Died. Stanton Griffis, 87, Wall Street financier and diplomat who built a large fortune in investment banking in the 1920s and 1930s as doctor to sick corporations (Paramount Pictures, among others), then went on to a second career in Government service, including a stint in 1951-52 as the Truman Administration's Ambassador to Spain, where he fought successfully for a reversal of Washington's longstanding policy of isolating the Franco regime; of pneumonia; in Manhattan...
...Barker's postprison rehabilitation program is a central Florida housing project he has agreed to promote along with his break-in partners Eugenic Martinez and Virgilio Gonzalez. The project, dubbed Watergate Hills, is a brainchild of Florida Builder John Priestes, who himself just ended a six-month stint in the slammer for FHA influence buying. The foursome hope to make $7 million to $9 million from the 600-unit complex, but last week their profit margin was shaved when thieves relieved on-site construction trailers of $9,000 worth of equipment. "The irony to me is that when...
...stint there broadened my perspective toward Harvard. I realized that Harvard was just as much a part of me as I was a part of California. I no longer feared or disdained the place. Instead, I could semi-objectively criticize its weaknesses and strengths. I was ready to meet Harvard head-on and no longer worried about becoming diseased by the place. Stanford's innoculation prevented growth of the germ which, I discovered, had been inside of me all along. Once I had recognized my ambitious nature, I could keep my competitive zeal in check and deal with Harvard people...
...keeping with University policy of fostering class spirit, most freshmen will live in Harvard Yard, the oldest part of the University. The ivy-covered buildings, lush green lawn and shady elms make the Yard an attractive place to start a four-year stint. People lounge on the grass, frisbees fly and dogs run loose, painting an idyllic picture of college for the newcomers. Enjoy the elms now. Many are suffering with Dutch elm disease and may have to be cut down. And don't worry about stepping in dog shit. There's amazingly little considering the number of dogs...