Word: stints
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Shady Ladies. Still, he put in a stint as a cub reporter on his father's San Diego Tribune, first took up painting while reading Ulysses "as an exercise for my perception." He decided to open a gallery in Beverly Hills devoted to the then avant-garde Surrealists, but the venture fell through when he made no sale for six months. "Since I guaranteed the artists that I'd sell 10% of their works, I almost had to start a collection," he says. He took off for Paris, where the artists whose works he had bought-Max Ernst...
Marketing Knowledge. King was born in the small town of Wheaton, Ill. Attacks of asthma and recurring pneumonia eventually forced him to drop out of college, but did not slow King's drive. A brief stint as an office boy for Harold Stassen brought an interest in politics, and King quickly became national chairman of the Young Republicans college clubs. At 23, he was elected to the Illinois house of representatives; he served three terms. A small investment led him into oil development. Meanwhile, King married Carylyn Becker, whose father was chief executive of Franklin Life Insurance...
Kranz, a crew-cut and clip-voiced former test pilot, was just winding up his ten-hour stint with his "white team" of flight controllers when the first hint of trouble came from 205,000 miles away in space. Quickly responding, he made the first of the long night's many important decisions, ordering the astronauts to turn off a fuel cell, check their thruster rockets, and power down the guidance and navigation systems. Though he may well have anticipated the worst, Kranz never faltered or showed signs of panic. "We've got a bad situation...
...squelch all boat-rocking at least until he secured his U.S. citizenship) underlines the truth that the tragedy of America admits of few clear villains. In like manner, Cowan understands that the shocking racism of many Peace Corps volunteers (one wanted to enlist in the Marines after his Ecuadorian stint so that he could shoot Vietnamese and pretend that they were "Ekkies," i.e., Ecuadorian spic/nigger/kikes) was a horrible perversion of their stymied idealism...
...mean, however, that its troops were going home. Only the 340-man honor guard, carrying the colors, left Viet Nam as First Infantry members. The large majority of the division's 17,000 men have been reassigned to vacancies in other outfits to complete their one-year stint in Viet Nam. The transfer process is more efficient than filling such vacancies from Stateside, of course, but it does not please the individual G.I.s. "Man, Nixon's just foolin' the people," said one disappointed trooper. "The division's goin' home, but all of us are stayin...