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...TIME correspondent since 1963, he has covered the riots, marches and other news in Los Angeles, Detroit, Birmingham, Jackson, Miss., and Danville, Va. Five years ago in Harlem, where he was born in 1938, a brick slammed into Terry's chest and left him gasping on the pavement. In 1963, he was with Medgar Evers the night before Evers was killed at his home in Jackson. For the past 22 months, Terry has been in our Saigon bureau, reporting the war in Viet Nam. Yet of all his assignments, says Terry, "the most fascinating - and in some ways frustrating...
...somehow managed to endure a campaign of catcalls and criticism. It was obviously the last straw when a radio chatter host named Barry Gray, awaiting Lindsay's overdue appearance on his nighttime show, began berating him in absentia for city ills ranging from street violence to pavement potholes...
High on a plateau in the Middle Atlas Mountains stands a rambling complex of rough-hewn rock buildings. These days the buildings are quiet; overhead, crows caw and buzzards scream; grass creeps through chinks in the pavement. Only three soldiers, stationed there to prevent looting, are now camped where a community of Benedictine monks so recently thrived. The monastery of Toumliline, a hopeful experiment of Christian witness in Moslem Morocco, is closed, probably forever...
Almost every manufacturer offers a super car. Pontiac has "the Judge" in honor of the Rowan and Martin line "Here come de judge." Dodge promotes the Charger R/T, Mercury the "Cyclone Spoiler." Externally, the cars are distinguishable by their fat, pavement-gripping tires and often by air scoops that bulge over the hood or sides. To be truly eligible for the club, a muscle car must be able to race down a quarter-mile strip of pavement from a standing start in under 15 seconds...
...boys spit on the pavement, dig each other in the ribs; some whistle shrilly, others swear obscenely and several tune into dance bands on their transistors. They hug their girls on the processional path and pull them from each other's arms and look them over cockily. At any moment you expect them to draw knives: first against each other, then against the believers. For the way these youngsters look upon believers is not as juniors upon their elders, not as guests upon their hosts, but as lords of the manor upon houseflies. Still, it doesn't come...