Word: cate
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...into the lobby of the Time-Life Building looking a mite perturbed," he recalls. "He came up to me and asked for $10, explaining, 'My bags are in the cab outside, and the driver is holding them be cause I don't have any money.' " Says Cate: "I lent the Congress man ten bucks, which was repaid by an aide...
...stories. But last week, with the embargo of Soviet grain sales sending shock waves through the Great Plains and a herd of presidential hopefuls campaigning in Iowa before the state's party caucuses, the bureau's correspondents found their list of assignments unusually heavy. Says Benjamin Cate, who has been Midwest's chief since 1975: "It was our busiest week with breaking stories since our cover on the Big Freeze of the winter of 1977. And it was just as frantic and even more complicated than any election-week reporting...
...Cate was already out in snow-choked Des Moines with the G.O.P. candidates who had come to Iowa when TIME'S editors in New York scheduled the cover story on the grain embargo. Filling in for Cate in Chicago, Correspondent Madeleine Nash marshaled stringers (part-time correspondents) to assess reaction to the embargo in the farm states and tapped her own agriculture sources. Patricia Delaney reported on the hectic commodities trading at the Chicago Board of Trade, while David Jackson interviewed experts on the gasohol program. Barry Hillenbrand, who had been following Ted Kennedy's efforts to explain...