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...STRINGER by WARD JUST 199 pages. Atlantic-Little, Brown...
...should have given DeVoss an early start in country music, but, he says, for him "paradise was listening to the Beach Boys while cruising Dallas streets in a supercharged GTO." He first discovered country music at the University of Texas at Austin, where he was TIME's campus stringer. He joined our Houston bureau after his graduation in 1968, then worked in Montreal, New York City, Detroit and Saigon before moving on to the U.S. West...
...maybe even profound playwright to emerge in English for a decade. But I think he may have something against critics in general, having once been one himself, before his Rosencrantz and Guildenstern broke on the London theater scene. Perhaps he shares reviewer-character Moon's jealousy of the first stringer who overshadows him, or reviewer-character Birdboot's moral outrage at other critic's criticism of his rather intense interest in a new actress each opening night. All I know is that one feels it wise to be on one's best critical behavior, for safety's sake, in inspecting...
...during college by working for his home-town paper in Holyoke, Mass. After a year with the Associated Press in 1965, he went to New Hamp shire to write in-depth articles for a group of small newspapers and covered Eugene McCarthy's New Hampshire primary as a stringer for TIME, after which he joined our Boston bureau as a correspondent. Merrick has been a Nation writer since June 1972. "This week's story is really about whether Russia is growing militarily stronger than the U.S.," he says. "The real problem is that the Pentagon tends to release...
...some American reporters working abroad maintain symbiotic relationships with the Central Intelligence Agency. In the shared quest for fresh information, correspondents and CIA agents have been known to swap tips to their mutual benefit. Recently, the Washington Star-News revealed that some 40 U.S. journalists-mostly freelance writers and "stringers" who work part-time for one or more employers-have been on the CIA payroll as undercover informants. Some are full-time agents using journalism as a cover. Only five of the 40 were said to be regular staffers for large news organizations. Still, the news raised eyebrows and caused...