Word: stints
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Divorced. Andy Griffith, 46, drawling, country-boy actor (No Time for Sergeants, A Face in the Crowd), who went on to an eight-year TV stint as the corn-bread sheriff of Mayberry on the Andy Griffith Show; and Barbara Griffith, 46; after 23 years of marriage, two children; in Santa Monica, Calif...
...which so facilitated the ascension of Eric Rohmer seems likely to do similarly for Alain Tanner. But like Rohmer. Tanner at his moment of success is no fresh young talent. He is a middle-aged Swiss with a varied career behind him that includes apprenticeship with the BBC, a stint in the Swiss navy and, most recently, time spent as a film critic...
When Ryan finishes his stint as acting manager a new manager will be named to oversee both the launders and the depot divisions...
...York, Chess Master Shelby Lyman mused over his own sudden stardom after acting as host for National Educational Television's coverage of the Reykjavik tournament. Lyman, who until recently lived in a $50-a-month cold-water flat and who earned only about $4,000 for his video stint, figures to make about $100,000 or so this year from books, lectures and personal appearances. Said he happily: "Now a top chess teacher will be able to command what a top psychiatrist gets...
...view that the word of God must be accompanied by social action. "How dare I go well fed to talk to hungry, unlearned people about the fact that they must be saved," he asks, "and not roll up my sleeves?" During the 1960s, he served a seven-year stint as field secretary for Africa and the West Indies for the British Methodist Missionary Society, and presently he is director of the W.C.C.'s Commission on World Mission and Evangelism...