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...trench coat is the unofficial uniform of two professions: foreign correspondent and intelligence agent. TIME National Security Correspondent Bruce van Voorst, who reported on this week's cover stories about the Marine spy scandal and the state of high-tech surveillance, knows intimately the wardrobe of both jobs. In 1955, fresh out of the University of Michigan with a & master's degree in Soviet studies, Van Voorst mulled over offers from the State Department and the CIA. The lure of the trench coat...
...have been digging a long time for details about the construction fiasco of the new embassies in Moscow and Washington." Though Van Voorst's involvement in espionage is decades behind him, he still maintains an extensive library of books on spying. And, of course, he still wears a trench coat...
...farmer named Jim Trench was driving around his place near Mount Kenya one day in a rainstorm, showing the visitor the giraffes that share the land with his livestock. He remarked, "Africa would not be Africa without the wild animals...
...soon as he enters a room, he already seems to be planning his exit. His eyes dart impatiently, purposefully. He carries a battered briefcase, shuns neckties and favors turned-up-at-the-collar trench coats. His face is boyishly handsome, and his nose shows evidence of having stopped a few punches during a college boxing career. Not much given to small talk, he speaks in clipped, direct phrases. The word action crops up often in his conversation: "action officers," "action plan," "action" used as a synonym for operation. The word itself is an easily deciphered clue, for Lieut. Colonel Oliver...
...cutting. The cost of a 256K dynamic RAM (random access memory) chip, for example, which can store more than 256,000 bits of information, fell from almost $40 to as little as $3. Says Andrew Grove, president of Intel: "There are just too damn many of us. It is trench warfare by the commercial armies of two countries...