Word: burtons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Perhaps because its sun-blasted emptiness is so different from their cozily crowded, fog-shrouded island, the trackless desert has always attracted Englishmen. A straight line leads from Sir Richard Burton crossing the Arabian desert in 1853 and Lawrence of Arabia down to Geoffrey Moorhouse. Burton had a simple thirst for the exotic. Lawrence was a complex mystic. Moorhouse, who left Nouakchott, Mauritania, in October of 1972 heading east into the Sahara, is a fortyish ex-journalist. In challenging the desert, he was intent on confronting his own fears and what he took to be personal cowardice...
Most of the planning of the seminars was undertaken by our Boston Bureau Chief Sandra Burton, TIME Behavior Correspondent Ruth Mehrtens Galvin, and Louis Banks, former Time Inc. editorial director, who is now a Harvard Business School professor and a member of Time Inc.'s board of directors. The guest speaker at the final dinner was Former Attorney General Elliot Richardson. "I am still a little worried," Richardson told us, "about the fact that TIME wants to know what's going to happen next. I would have thought you had quite enough to do telling us what happened...
...with the existential dilemma of the New York bureau's Richard Ostling when he found himself trying to interview the followers of Swami Satchidananda during one of their "silent retreats" at Yogaville East in Connecticut. Possibly the most metaphysical experience of 1973 belongs to Boston Bureau Chief Sandra Burton, who was sent through Mexico's Sonora Desert one night in search of the Yaqui medicine man Don Juan for TIME'S Carlos Castaneda cover story (March 5). At one point, she recalls, she and Photographer Eddie Adams pulled their car off a deserted road for an "atmosphere...
...when the volcano erupted and buried them. They wanted to die together. That's what life is all about-being able to hold on." Thus a bathetic Elizabeth Taylor described her favorite Pompeii fossil in the January issue of McCall's. Erstwhile Separated Husband No. 5 Richard Burton showed his own dedication to holding on by jetting into Los Angeles, draping a new $20,000 diamond necklace around Liz, and sweeping her off for a not altogether unexpected reconciliation in southern Italy-not too far from Vesuvius, in fact. Meanwhile, the London Daily Mirror reported that Los Angeles...
...Burton Dreben a little more cash...