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...message struck a special chord in me," said Los Angeles Correspondent William Marmon, whose long interview with Alex Haley, the author of Roots, accompanies our cover story. Marmon, whose own roots were in the South, finds that he too has "rattling around in my head some near-biblical family stories told and retold by my grandmother." Like many white Southerners, Marmon chafed against the "distorting experience" of segregation and, to help counteract it, wrote his senior thesis at Princeton on the Harlem renaissance of the 1920s. Correspondent Edward Boyer, who sat in on the interview with Haley, felt a shock...
...brink of closing. The longest of these shutdowns started last Oct. 15 in Eagle Point (pop. 2,600). Five times since last April the district's school board has proposed budgets of nearly $5 million; five times the voters have rebuffed them. TIME Correspondent William Marmon visited the town and reported...
Movie and TV Critic Richard Schickel wrote the story, based on reporting by Leo Janos and William F. Marmon Jr. in Los Angeles and Mary Cronin, Janice Castro and Jean Vallely in New York. As the Show Business/Television reporter-researcher, Vallely rivals Duffy in periodic movie marathons (up to four films in a day). But she recalls that as a child, "movies were only something for a rainy day. It wasn't healthy to spend so much time indoors." Instead, her family would often trek from their home in Falmouth, Me., to leftfield in Fenway Park to watch...
...assignment reminded San Francisco Correspondent John Austin "of summers in Kentucky with a farmer-uncle who tried to interest me in picking long, thick, pasty-looking hornworms off the tobacco plants." For his reporting, Austin stayed close to governmental and academic experts upstate, while Los Angeles Correspondent William Marmon talked with entomologists in the downstate area...
...first place." Arizona authorities finger home-grown mobsters as more likely to commit such an act. They suggest that, despite his apparent loss of interest, Bolles may have been close to linking some big names to illegal schemes. Phoenix Police Lieutenant Jack Bentley told TIME Correspondent William F. Marmon Jr.: "Bolles had reams of stuff in his files that was very damaging but never printed. We have volumes of information leading to influential people, but people insulated to the nth degree. It is really hard to tell who the enemy is at this point...