Word: hillenbrand
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...chess fever through TIME'S ranks. Alexandra Mezey, who researched the story, uses a pocket chess set to brush up on her king's side defense during spare moments. Kennedy and Leon Jaroff, who edited the story, recently engaged in a cross-country match via telex with Hillenbrand and other Los Angeles bureau members. After 23 moves, when the West Coast wood pushers' victory seemed assured, they revealed that they had used former U.S. Champion Larry Evans to direct their game. This week, with Hillenbrand already at his next assignment in Saigon, Chess Expert Evans...
CORRESPONDENT Barry Hillenbrand was taught chess at an early age by his brothers, he recalls, so that they would always have someone to beat. During the past year he has had ample chance to brush up on his game while shadowing Bobby Fischer around the Western Hemisphere. His dogged pursuit produced the material for this week's cover story. The temperamental genius is as cool toward the press as he is toward his opponents, and Hillenbrand found that "getting him to talk was a complicated task calling for the patience of a snake tamer." They first met in Denver...
They later went bowling in Philadelphia and tooled around the Catskill Mountains, with Fischer at the wheel of Hillenbrand's car, to help Fischer sharpen his driving skills. When Fischer went to Buenos Aires last September to compete against Tigran Petrosian, Hillenbrand was there, and the two went restaurant-hopping between matches. "I finally found that if I put away the notebook," says Hillenbrand, "Bobby would drop his guard and reveal an extraordinarily friendly, human side...
...Vietnamese convoys that were ambushed and brutally destroyed lay rusting and rotting along the highway; even the military equipment was still in place beside the shriveled corpses of ARVN soldiers and the unfortunate civilians who had hitched a ride in the military vehicles. The area, reported TIME Correspondent Barry Hillenbrand, was "hauntingly quiet except for the occasional report of artillery in the distance. It was like stumbling on the site of a burned-out massacred wagon train left in a remote Wyoming valley...
...week's end, the South Vietnamese task force at Quang Tri was inching its way forward, with the help of U.S. air strikes, toward the center of Quang Tri city. One such strike, Hillenbrand reported, transformed a thickly wooded enemy bunker position into a cluster of burnt-out tree stumps, "as if some triple-strength forest fire had passed that way." If past performance is any guide, the North Vietnamese will probably put up a mettlesome resistance before withdrawing-and the NVA still has plenty of long-range artillery in the hills to the west of the city. Nonetheless...