Word: schefter
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Meanwhile, in Houston, the rest of TIME'S Apollo reportorial team -Correspondents Don Neff and James Schefter and Bureau Secretary Rose Graham-had set up operations in a motel directly across the street from the Manned Space Center. For Rose, it was the 16th time that she has supervised the movement of typewriters, files, Associated Press ticker and Teletype from the bureau offices in Houston's downtown Humble Building. During Apollo 8's pioneering voyage around the moon, she sent copy by Teletype for 20 hours without letup, all through Christmas Eve until noon on Christmas...
...impending moon flight in a SCIENCE cover story written by Associate Editor Leon Jaroff (TIME, Dec. 6), who also wrote this week's story of the astronauts' flight. To cover the shot, Houston Bureau Chief Don Neff, Washington Correspondent David Lee and Houston Stringer Jim Schefter, all veterans of earlier and less ambitious shots, filed from location. Lee and Schefter stayed at Cane Kennedy until the successful liftoff; then Schefter piloted them by private plane to Houston's Manned Spacecraft Center, thus escaping the massive migration of newsmen that jams transportation to Houston after a launch...
...already changed his mind. The Apollo 8 moon mission, he feels, should have an air of unmatched excitement. Washington Correspondent David Lee and Houston Stringer James Schefter, who also reported for this week's cover, agree. The close race with the Russians, the pride of trailblazing, the somberness of three men risking their lives-all combine to give this next moonbound flight a very special aura...
...Bryan Price: the International 5-0-5 Class world sailing championship; in a stiff breeze off Larchmont, N.Y. Australian Price handled his 16-ft. centerboard Sundowner as though it was wearing a motor, blew U.S. Air Force Lieut. Henry Schefter into second place, and whipped 52 other contestants from eight countries...