Word: stewart
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...John Stewart...
With North Vietnamese rocket and artillery fire raking their converted tennis-court helipad, TIME Correspondents Roy Rowan and William Stewart, along with Photographers Dirck Halstead and Mark Godfrey, choppered out of Tan Son Nhut airport last Tuesday shortly before Communist advance units entered downtown "Ho Chi Minh city." Rowan's and Stewart's accounts of the final American evacuation, cabled from the U.S.S. Blue Ridge in the South China Sea, appear in this week's Indochina cover section...
...operation continued, many helicopters came under fire. Most evacuees sat in cold panic as their choppers took off. "For the next three minutes as we gained altitude," reported TIME Correspondent William Stewart, "we held our breaths. We knew the Communists had been using heat-seeking missiles, and we were prepared to be shot out of the sky. As I turned around to see who was aboard, Buu Vien, the South Vietnamese Interior Minister, smiled and gave a thumbs-up signal. Forty minutes later we were aboard the U.S.S. Denver, a landing-platform dock, and safe...
Another stay-put journalist, Stewart Dalby of the London Financial Times, reported: "I went to speak to some Communist troops heavily armed with grenades and AK47 rifles sitting in a truck outside the old Defense Ministry. They smiled and waved. All of them were very young." A correspondent from Agence France Presse was also glowing. Within hours of Saigon's fall, he wrote, "I could wander about the streets without feeling any threats, any animosity...
...Zeph Stewart, long-time master of Lowell House, said that such a conception is "ridiculous." "I have been living in Houses steadily since 1948," Stewart says. "In all that time I would say there has been one change. As long as there was a separate table for faculty, a fair number came and ate together. When they dissolved it in the late '50s, instead of mixing with students, they just didn't come." Other than that, Stewart claims, there have been no changes in House life, whether pre-or post-1969, "I've found I've never been able...