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Crimson goalie Rich Reed split the chores with Chris Trakas and did not allow a goal during his stint...
Alevizos apparently impressed the Cubs brass sufficiently to be invited back for next season. He may be assigned to Midland of the double-A Texas League, but is more likely to put in a stint with a single-A squad in Burlington, Iowa...
...impoverished childhood as the son of an herbal medicine man. He finished in the top ten in his class at the national Military Academy, took special forces training in the U.S. and commanded a regiment of South Korea's White Horse Division during a year's stint in Viet Nam. Only last May he insisted: "I have no political ambitions." But his behind-the-scenes maneuvering indicated otherwise. "Chun's not the simple-minded soldier, as many abroad might think," a Western diplomat says...
...With that modest assessment of his qualifications, Mohammed Ali Raja'i last week accepted his election as Iran's Prime Minister. Raja'i, as Winston Churchill said about another man, has every reason to be modest. His meager government experience was limited to a ten-month stint as Minister of Education, a post in which he mainly presided over the closing of schools and universities in the name of "Islamization." President Abolhassan Banisadr, who is constitutionally responsible for nominating the Prime Minister, considered Raja'i headstrong, ill-informed and unfit for the job. In fact...
...convention's close, several hundred delegates and hangers-on gathered below the CBS booth chanting "Walter! Walter! Walter!" It was Cronkite's last stint as a convention anchor, and the crowd was giving him a rousing salute. At a CBS party a few hours later, colleagues presented him with a 1952-vintage microphone that plays a tape of Walter broadcasting his first convention, the Democrats' get-together that year in Chicago. But Cronkite seemed in no hurry to go: he said he would be back in some capacity in 1984. After all, even if many conventions offer...