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Once, while he and a sergeant major waited for a lull in the firing, Greenway experienced what he says was a moment of total recall. "There I was, covered with mud, sweaty, nose pressed into the dirt, and I suddenly remembered that almost exactly a year ago to the day I was sitting in our plush Boston bureau trying to get a call through to Harvard's President Pusey for a story about the divinity school. I thought: 'If I walked into President Pusey's office right now, he would call the police...
...edge of Viet Nam's DMZ last week, TIME Correspondent David Greenway, like the Marines whose activities he was reporting, found himself spending much of his time hunkered down in foxholes. The way to stay healthy was to steer clear of incoming artillery shells...
...Greenway found the very thought of making a phone call particularly ironic. For communications in South Viet Nam are so bad that reporters often spend days in the field without any contact with their office in Saigon. Until he choppered back to Saigon, in fact, Greenway did not know that the files he was writing in the battered outpost were to become a key part in a cover story...
...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...
Born in Boston 32 years ago, Greenway graduated from Yale and filed his first story for Time Inc. as a campus stringer at Oxford. The story, for SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, was about the price of wolf's urine at the London Zoo. "It seems," he recalls, "that the Oxford drag hunt used wolf's urine for the drag and they were upset about a sudden price hike...