Word: devoss
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Laotians have already fled across the Mekong River to Thailand, and an additional 1,000 leave each month. Thousands of others actively oppose the regime; as a result, nearly half of Laos, including much of the fertile Mekong Plain, is contested by insurgents. TIME Hong Kong Correspondent David DeVoss reports that in the north, some 4,500 fiercely independent Meo hill tribesmen operate out of the former CIA base in Long Cheng. Although they have only 3,000 rifles and a dwindling cache of ammunition, they have made most of the mountainous area uninhabitable for Communist troops. Blia...
While Skow and Vallely were struggling to keep up with Ronstadt in New York, Los Angeles Correspondent Edward J. Boyer was talking with her fellow musicians and record company executives on the West Coast, and David DeVoss submitted a file that distilled the essence of the Los Angeles rock scene...
Correspondent David DeVoss, covering the scene in Las Vegas, did not get off as easily, even with the benefit of expert advice. "There's no such thing as a winning gambler," a casino manager told him. Anxious to challenge that statement, DeVoss consulted a slot machine. Reports DeVoss: "The $15 I lost convinced me that casino managers are more truthful than casino marquees...
...honkytonk. It is both a style and a place, and of the place it used to be said that "honky-tonks were where a white man could get killed by his own kind while listening to country music." To keep track of both style and setting, TIME Correspondent David DeVoss went to Florida to talk with the current king of honkytonk, Gary Stewart. DeVoss's report...
...Coast Grand Prix. But the 72,000 spectators who paid from $12 for a bleacher seat to $1,000 for a hotel balcony view enjoyed more than just a road race. The two-hour Grand Prix was the climax of a three-day combustible fiesta, and TIME Correspondent David DeVoss was among the participants. Explained former Maserati Racer Carroll Shelby as he blissfully sniffed a passing cloud of hydrocarbon: "This is a spectacle...