Word: journalist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...still heavily fortified Sino-Soviet frontier. The two- week trip was organized by the New York City-based National Committee on U.S.-China Relations. The delegation was led by former U.S. Ambassador to Moscow Arthur Hartman and former U.S. Army Chief of Staff General John Wickham. The only journalist in the group was TIME Washington Bureau Chief Strobe Talbott, who filed this report...
...novel called Cien Aos de Soledad was published in Buenos Aires and began winning international acclaim for a Colombian journalist named Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Yet nearly three years elapsed before One Hundred Years of Solitude made its way into English. The reason for the delay? Argentine Author Julio Cortazar, whose novel Rayuela had become a critical success in the U.S. as Hopscotch, offered Garcia Marquez a piece of advice based on his own happy experience: Get your book translated by Professor Gregory Rabassa of New York City. As it happened, Garcia Marquez had to wait a while; Rabassa was busy...
...National Hobo Association. He drives a Mercedes and until recently lived near affluent Century City in Los Angeles. On the road he carries a secret credit card, which he used once to fly home for a role. Hopkins' companions are a Palm Springs horse breeder and a journalist. Across America, weekend hoboes include a Connecticut schoolmarm, a Florida minister, a Washington State college professor, even a Denver shopping center developer who hops freights to find remote fishing spots. They are among some 500 weekend rail riders on Hopkins' home computer and part of the 2,000-member association, which also...
...that women couldn't succeed in business," says Castro, whose grandmother was running the office of a San Francisco chemical firm in 1914, when she was only 18. Castro's parents co-managed a small meat company. While in college, Castro dreamed of running her own business, but the journalist's notebook won out over the balance sheet...
...over the Horton incident, Dukakis signed a new law last April banning furloughs for first-degree murderers. Explaining his turnaround, Dukakis said simply, "I try to listen, I try to learn." But the Governor still becomes testy when confronted with the question. During a debate in San Francisco, conservative Journalist John McLaughlin charged that Massachusetts' program allowed convicts to commit more violent crimes. "That's not true," Dukakis exclaimed. "That happened on one occasion...