Word: cons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Greenway's colleagues in TIME'S Saigon and Washington bureaus filed a great deal about other aspects of the cover story, but his eyewitness reports, made under almost constant enemy fire, were the basis for the part on Con Thien. The conditions Greenway was forced to work under were a measure of Greenway the man. He is well known at TIME for his sartorial splendor and neat English accent, polished during two years of graduate study at Oxford and subsequent world travels. Tigers and elephants, which he sometimes sees on operations in Viet Nam, make Greenway think...
Subsequent adventures have taken Greenway from hunts near 19,565-ft.-high Kilimanjaro to 520-ft.-high Con Thien, which, as our cover story notes means roughly "place of angels," but is "more akin to hell." How does he like his new assignment that calls for so much time on the muddy, bloody "roof" of South Viet...
...Con Thien, South Viet Nam, in the autumn...
...this monster did is now a blot on my father's name," she says. She admits that Stalin and Beria were often "guilty together," but calls Stalin's support of Beria "inexplicable," due to Beria's "cunning." The truth must be that Stalin needed Beria to con solidate his rule of Russia during the trembling 1930s, and toward that end Beria murdered tens of thousands. Svet lana's narrative coincides with the bloodiest reign in history. She almost misses it and remarks with startling naivete, "People shot themselves fairly often in those days . . . People were...
...minimize the importance or the necessary of imaginative solutions to our growing court con...