Word: lancer
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Maggie Scarf's life has fallen into place very neatly--a Nieman fellow and well-known free lancer, she has published articles regularly in The New York Times Magazine, and has published several books. Yet with all this behind her, Scarf does not attribute her journalistic fortunes solely to talent or luck. Rather, she feels they are a direct result of her "hanging in" ability, of her tenacity...
...Bengal Lancer...
Officials of the Hearst Corp. refused yesterday to comment on Adams' article or on their plans for a settlement. "All I will say is that he's a free-lancer, and we bought his story," Sherman H. Saiger, an attorney for the corporation, said yesterday...
...what of the others? The Atlantic's Denby, free-lancer Brad Darrach, Saturday Review's Alpert, Life's Schickel, Playboy's Bruce Williamson? They're all likable writers, all riding home on their easiest talents, with little seeming to worry them beyond filling a page with sprightly opinionation--devil take the relevant focus. Film criticism has reached its premature middle-age, gaining pot bellies and pot heads instead of mature vitality...
...thrusts launched last week, the two most important were aimed at areas from which North Vietnamese and Viet Cong regulars have long ventured forth to terrorize key positions in South Viet Nam. The two: OPERATION BOLD LANCER, directed at Base Area 354, between the Fishhook and the Parrot's Beak. The area has long been home for one of the most destructive of all Communist units, the crack 95C Regiment of the North Vietnamese Army, which has made life miserable for the allies in War Zone C in Tay Ninh province. Base Area 354 has also served as headquarters...