Word: berta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Working with Researchers Berta Gold, Erika Kraemer and Priscilla Badger, and drawing on the detailed and perceptive reports from the field, Writers David Tinnin and Philip Osborne and Senior Editor George Daniels were able to fashion a comprehensive account of the events as they were happening, placing the present in the perspective of history...
...cover, the massive job of reporting and research fell to people who brought a high degree of expertise to the task: Bureau Chiefs Roger Stone (Rio), Gavin Scott (Buenos Aires), Mo Garcia (Caracas); Stringers Tomas Loayza (Lima) and Jorge Jurado (Quito); Washington Correspondent Jerry Hannifin; New York Researchers Berta Gold, Erika Kraemer and Priscilla Badger. Obviously expert in his craft, if not necessarily in the area, was the man who took the color photographs, J. Alex Langley, who covered the vast and rugged area by truck, Jeep, horse, helicopter, DC-3, and one sortie in a Grumman Goose piloted...
...same cities anyway. The real prize, Panair's routes to Europe and the Mideast, will go to Varig, which is already South America's biggest airline and by far its best. Founded in 1927, Varig has been run for the past 23 years by Ruben Berta, 57, a onetime Lufthansa accountant who has built it into an international operation with routes to South America's west coast and the U.S., a huge domestic system, and a fleet of 95 planes, including 15 jets and propjets...
...sooner was Panair grounded than Varig moved in to pick up the pieces, loaded passengers booked on a Panair DC-8 directly onto a Varig Convair 990 for a Lisbon-Paris-Frankfurt flight. Now Berta is talking about renting two of Panair's DC-8s and assigning a new Varig Boeing 707 to the transatlantic service. It was a familiar routine for Berta & Co. Panair is the tenth Brazilian airline that Varig has swallowed in as many years...
From other Latin American countries and from Washington, TIME correspondents filed assessments of the Brazilian President by top diplomatic and government officials. At TIME'S editorial offices in New York, still more material was gathered by Portuguese-descended, Portuguese-speaking Researcher Berta Cordeiro Gold. All the mass of research went to the desk of Contributing Editor Peter Bird Martin, 31, who has followed the course of Latin American events for six years as a TIME writer. His story (his fifth TIME cover), edited by Senior Editor George Daniels, was the final product in an intensive combination of talent, experience...