Word: covering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WHILE the world waited anxiously for some promise of peace in Viet Nam, Associate Editor Ronald Kriss, who wrote this week's cover story, felt that he was entitled to some extra measure of impatience. The special publishing deadlines of a pre-election issue meant that all stories had to be written and edited at an accelerated pace; the probability of a bombing halt only compounded the need for speed. But Kriss, along with Senior Editor Michael Demarest and Researcher Mary Kelley, were as prepared as possible for the unpredictable. For months, they have been studying every nuance...
When the talks started last spring, it was Kriss who wrote TIME'S cover on Negotiators Harriman, Vance, Xuan Thuy and the North Vietnamese representative in Pans, Mai Van Bo (May 10, 1968). In that story, the big question was: What really brought the North Vietnamese to the conference table? This time, Kriss had to piece together all the moves and countermoves, all the rumors, all the military and diplomatic reports that suggested a bombing pause was imminent. As he worked, he was helped by TIME correspondents who filed their own analyses from most major capitals of the world...
...Cover: Collage by Dennis Wheeler...
TIME'S cover artists often find themselves spending long hours, even days, devising a plan of attack, a theme that will give some added insight to their work. Romare Bearden, 54, had no such problem. Although he was born in Charlotte, N.C., he has lived in Manhattan most of the past 50 years, and he has strong feelings about the expanding troubles of his adopted city. After discussing his first cover assignment with TIME'S editors on the 25th floor of the TIME and LIFE Building in Manhattan, Bearden happened to look out of the window just before...
...COVER STORY...