Word: vanderschmidt
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...three people responsible for producing the section-Senior Editor Leon Jaroff, Writer Frederic Golden and Reporter-Researcher Sydnor Vanderschmidt-have been covering the space program for years. They could not escape a feeling of loss now that manned missions are ending. "It is adventure of the highest sort," says Vanderschmidt. "It's one of the few things that raises us above the grubbiness that man seems to be making of much of his life...
THINKING back to the early '60s, Reporter-Researcher Sydnor Vanderschmidt recalls the difficulties that "space journalism" had in getting off the ground: "When the space age began, it seemed that no one was prepared to interpret the developments for a general audience. The scientists used incomprehensible jargon, and a typical reporter's question was 'How in the world does that satellite stay up there?' " Since then, Syd observes, "newsmen have acquainted themselves with orbital mechanics, and the scientists have finally learned to speak English...
Reporter-Researcher Vanderschmidt's fascination with the drama of flight does not end in the office. Driving each weekend from their West Side Manhattan apartment to a small airstrip in the Catskills, she and her husband Tom put their knowledge of aerodynamics to the acid test by flying gliders...
...significant part of the field as well. Hence, this week's special section represents a collaboration among the four sections. Senior Editor Leon Jaroff (Atom No. 1 in the journalistic molecule) headed the task force. Science Writer Frederic Golden (2), drawing on material gathered by John by Sydnor Vanderschmidt (3), Alan Anderson (4) and John Wilhelm (5), traced the assault on the mysteries of molecular biology. Jere Donovan (6), assisted by Nina Lihn (7), devised the diagrams of the cell's mechanisms. Medicine Writer Peter Stoler (8), aided by reports from Gail Lowman Eisen (9) and Douglas Gasner...
...sections, too, TIME'S Manhattan-based staffers quite often supply expert and extensive reportage for their assigned sections. Virginia Adams, who has been writing in the Behavior section, produced a report for a cover story on Harlem that set te entire mood and direction of the articke. Sydnor Vanderschmidt traveled to Cape Kennedy to witness the Apollo 9 launch and will do so again for Apollo 14. While studying the nature of religious experience, Clare Mead underwent a consciousness-expanding experiment at Manhattan's Foundation for Mind Research; her report became a feature in TIME'S Religion...