Word: sun
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...marathon is a frightening contest of wits between Shaw and speeding cars and trucks. On back roads, under a sultry sun, he frequently got enmired in melting tar. Also, everywhere, there are dogs, yelping and nipping at the rolling hero as if he were absconding with the Alpo. He carries a rosary in his left pocket. "I do pray a lot when I'm out there on the highways," he says. "Anything can happen out there." Vehicles are continually bearing down on him, and eluding them requires a special dexterity and alertness. Says Shaw: "Anyone who thinks...
Even as the sun grows cold...
...just beginning to lift from the ocean when we went to Point Lobos. In the sun, it looked like baskets of cotton tumbling over; a light golden haze, mixed with the green and brown of Marin heights across the channel. Ray and I climbed down on the deep-scarred rocks and went into a small cave hidden between a deep cut in the rocks. We could hear the small waves smack crisply outside, but inside the small grotto our voices were dull and hollow. Ray began talking about school...
...fast job of fact checking. Associate Editor Spencer Davidson, one of TIME'S most experienced Middle East hands with nine previous Middle East covers to his credit, wrote the story. A graduate of Baltimore's Loyola College, Davidson reported on metropolitan affairs for the Baltimore Sun before coming to TIME in 1956. After stints as a Nation and Business writer and Atlanta bureau chief, he joined the World section in 1968. Last year he filled in for seven months as Beirut bureau chief. "Having been in the Middle East," he says, "and sensing the utter difficulty of getting...
John P. Corr, columnist and feature writer for The Philadelphia Inquirer; Thomas J. Dolan, investigative reporter for The Chicago Sun-Times; Sheryl A. Fitzgerald, features editor, The Journal and Guide, Norfolk, Va.; David V. Hawpe, associate editor and editorial writer, The Courier-Journal, Louisville...