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...story in force. And in a year that has seen more than its share of grim news, their assignment offered a pleasant, if hectic, change of pace. A quick phone call to Rome sent Bureau Chief Jim Bell flying off to Athens. There, with the help of our stringer Mario Modiano, Bell chartered the only plane at the airport that was not controlled by either Onassis or the Greek government. He was taken for a look at Onassis' private island of Skorpios, and he is still frightened. "The pilot passed so low over the harbor," says Bell, "that...
That was Exeter's first big bust. Randy Smith, a writer for the student newspaper, The Exonian, tipped off U.P.I. for whom he was a stringer. U.P.I. found out independently that Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach's son was involved in the Benzedrex Inhalers. The deans got angry at Smith because he hadn't checked out the story with them. Next year in an interview for his college application a dean told him to "keep clean...
...them with a burst of fire from their automatic weapons. They cut down all but one, an Australian freelance photographer who escaped by playing dead. Cantwell, a native of Sidney, Australia, had worked for Australian and Hong Kong newspapers and the Associated Press before joining TIME as a stringer-correspondent, spoke three Chinese dialects and was an avid student of Asian languages and culture. During the past year, he had covered a wide variety of stories about the Vietnamese war for TIME. He was about to rejoin his wife and three children in Hong Kong when he set forth...
While the campus stringers report more for Education than any other section of the magazine, they often contribute to such areas as The Nation, Essay, Modern Living and Sport. Their jobs involve hours of extra work. Don Morrison, our stringer at the University of Pennsylvania, is an extremely busy campus editor and honors student who admits that he is sometimes exasperated when students, faculty and administrators-not to mention TIME staffers-pester him at odd hours with queries, requests, suggestions and sometimes complaints about what TIME has said. How ever, his occasional chagrin disappears when a campus source, trying...
Many of the stringers are editors of student newspapers or are in other ways deeply involved in campus activities. Nearly all of them find that reporting for TIME makes them give more thorough consideration to what is going on, not only on their campuses but also far beyond, bringing local insights into broad perspective. Their TIME credentials usually will help get them in to see the president of the university or into a student protest conference, but the job often does call for some special approaches-particularly with people who happen to disagree with us. Says Gloria Anderson, our girl...