Word: stringer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Upon hearing that a South African paper had published a sensational exposé of conditions in the country's prisons, the London Sunday Times sent a cable to its Johannesburg stringer asking for details. "I dare not risk prosecution and gaoling by cabling this story," answered Stringer Benjamin Pogrund. He had reason for his fears. He had written the story in the first place for the nation's most outspoken newspaper, the Rand Daily Mail. And Prime Minister Verwoerd's police were already making trouble...
...decision set in motion a widely based team of TIME staffers. Notable among them were Caribbean Correspondent Richard Duncan and veteran Santo Domingo Stringer Bernard Diederich, who was on a brief assignment in New York. The two flew to Puerto Rico, and since all civilian access to the Dominican Republic was closed, they went the military route. From San Juan harbor they were ferried by a U.S. Navy LST to the assault carrier Boxer, already en route to Dominican waters with the first contingent of marines. A Marine helicopter then flew them from the deck of the Boxer...
Meanwhile, other TIME reporters were at work on other aspects of the story. Latin American Specialist Jerry Hannifin, one of several reporters assigned to the story in the Washington bureau, covered the series of emergency sessions of the Organization of American States. San Juan Stringer Nat Carnes talked at length with deposed President Juan Bosch, a leading figure in the drama, and bureaus and stringers throughout Latin America reported on reaction...
...zebras and wildebeests are timorous but hardheaded: if a car gets between them and their water hole, adieu auto! As for the little creatures-like 150-lb. wart hogs-a driver can only keep his fingers crossed. "They're impossible to see until you hit them," explained TIME Stringer Henry Reuter, whose Singer Vogue bogged out after 190 miles last week. "But boy, do they make a mess...
...special enthusiasm was for the Religion story on Islam. Central to the story is the hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca's holy places that for a devout Moslem is the ultimate in spiritual reward on this earth. One such devout Moslem is TIME'S veteran Cairo-based stringer Mohamed Wagdi, and for him the job was the opportunity of a lifetime-to make the hajj and report it. For the six weeks after he first made his application to go on last year's pilgrimage until he returned to Cairo, he kept a diary of his experiences...