Word: coverers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that search, Reporter Mark Goodman spent eleven days with this week's cover subject, Hockey Superstar Bobby Hull, observing the man at home, in his car, on the rink, at work on radio commercials, in his lawyer's office, in a bar, signing autographs in a barbershop. Part of the reporting and most of the in-house research for Sport is done by Researcher Geraldine Kirshenbaum, who is often amused when sports people get nervous about having a feminine reporter around. Some hockey public relations men tried to keep her away from the players "because their language...
...Citadel of Hue resembled nothing so much as the ruins of Monte Cassino after allied bombs had reduced it to rubble. An avalanche of bricks littered the streets and open spaces, and loose piles of masonry provided cover for both sides in the battle for the fortress. With every explosion of bomb or shell, the air turned red with choking brick dust. Having fought through Hué block by block, house by house, then yard by yard, the U.S. Marines were now engaged in what a company commander called a "brick-by-brick fight" to drive the North Vietnamese forces...
...weary battalions of Marines bellying through the chunks of rubble, progress was slow and costly in lives. Time after time, whole companies were pinned down against their rubble shields by a single, well-placed machine-gunner. A persistent drizzle socked in their air cover for most of the week. Even when air support came in, Communist artillery made the most of the low-flying weather: in 446 sorties by U.S. helicopters, Communist guns scored strikes against no fewer than 60. Said Lieut. General Robert E. Cushman Jr., commander of 1 Corps forces: "The gods of war were in their favor...
...Leathernecks, taking grim note of each setback, only pressed the enemy harder. Sharpshooters with high-powered scopes hunkered down behind battlements in "secure" sections of the Citadel wall, squeezing off occasional rounds at moving targets. As they waited out the weather for air cover or rested for their next push, the unshaven, dust-covered Marines sipped endless cups of powdered coffee, occasionally breaking out a liberated magnum of French champagne to accompany their C rations...
Inside the Maharishi's 15-acre ashram (academy), inner peace last week was overshadowed by outer turmoil. The Maharishi's guards used barbed wire and billy clubs to fence off a horde of reporters and photographers trying to cover the retreat. After one photographer was whacked repeatedly by a gang of sentries when he wandered past the guard station, the Indian police arrived at Rishikesh to open an investigation. Because the Maharishi charges $800 for three months' room and board, the police may also declare the ashram a hotel and force the Maharishi to register guests like...