Word: mcmanus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CURSED spite, that I was born this wrong to write." Paraphrasing Hamlet with bitter humor. TIME'S Common Market correspondent Jason McManus cabled that message to New York last week in the heat of reporting his part of the cover story on Charles de Gaulle's veto of Great Britain's application to the Common Market. For Correspondent McManus, 28. the week's events had a special impact...
...native of Kansas City, Kans.. McManus trained to write of politico-economics at Davidson College in Davidson, N.C.. where he graduated cum laude and as a Phi Beta Kappa in 1956, at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, where he took his master's degree in 1958, and during a year as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford. He joined TIME'S staff in 1959 and wrote the first story of Britain's desire to join the Common Market in 1961 (Aug. 11). From then on, as the Common Market began...
Since last July, McManus has been based in Paris, and from there has ranged through the Common Market area to report on the developing community. In recent weeks, covering the negotiations on Britain's entry application, he admits that "it was impossible not to begin to root for the British." After he left Brussels last week, during the wake for Britain's hopes, he admitted to a slight feeling of apology at telling a watchful clerk at the British European Airways counter in London that because of more convenient flight times he would have to fly Air France...
Near the end of a troubled and bewildering week in Europe, one of the key Eurocrats approached Jason McManus and said that he hoped that TIME this week would tell him what was happening, because nobody there really seemed to know. This we have tried...
...most significant moral to be drawn from 1962's business year was the impact of overseas business upon the U.S., and the increasing U.S. involvement abroad. To round out this part of the story, our Common Market Correspondent Jason McManus interviewed several dozen bankers, industrialists and economists in Europe, as well as that new breed of technician, the Eurocrats. For the past 6 months we have been presenting two business sections each week-U.S. and World Business. Since the theme of this story is how the two areas became interwoven in 1962, it is appropriate that...