Word: frankness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...since the climactic fall of the Diem regime in November 1963, the story has required cover treatment no fewer than 16 times.* The team of correspondents who did this week's on-the-spot reporting is unmatched for its expertise, including as it did Hong Kong Bureau Chief Frank McCulloch, who has been covering the war for 2½ years, and James Wilde, an old Viet Nam hand, as well as seasoned reporters Donald Neff, William McWhirter, Zalin Grant, Than Trong Hue and Robin Mannock. Working with their files from Saigon and others from the Tokyo and Washington bureaus...
Perhaps the most fascinating confrontation for this week's cover story was the meeting of correspondent and cover subject. "Why do you shave your head?" Tri Quang asked, staring at Frank McCulloch's gleaming pate. Frank said he looked worse with hair. Tri Quang marveled at Frank's close shave and inquired: "Doesn't it hurt you?" The monk drew out an electric razor and said with a smile: "I use this, but it doesn't give a very close shave." Then Tri Quang fixed McCulloch with a thoughtful stare and concluded the preliminaries with...
...reading reports on what its developer calls "the world's most accurate unguided rocket." Though they could easily have bought a Gyrojet in the capital, they showed up for some reason at a gun shop in San Jose, Calif., last week. "They spoke very good English," recalled Dealer Frank Schilling. "You'd never have taken them for a couple of those umphing Russians...
...unusual private interview, one of the relatively few he has granted to Western newsmen, Thich Tri Quang talked for an hour last week with TIME Correspondents Frank McCulloch and James Wilde at his Saigon residence, a room in a maternity clinic. The interpreter was Than Trong Hue, a Vietnamese member of the TIME staff, who addressed the monk with the "venerable" title reserved for the Buddhist clergy. Tri Quang was clad in a hospital gown, white pantaloons, and brown leather sandals...
...work for the new corporation until a contract has been signed, the paper's editors have not even been able to run off one dummy issue. "It's going to be like opening a show on Broadway without an out-of-town try-out," says Editor Frank Conniff. "The cast will be getting together for the first time just twelve hours before opening-night curtain...