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This week's cover story, on the impending breakup of AT&T and the telecommunications revolution that is both a part and a result of this event, was written by Associate Editor John S. DeMott and reported largely by New York-based Correspondent Bruce van Voorst. A nine-year veteran of TIME who specializes in business and economics stories, DeMott was particularly pleased with the assignment because it permitted him to deal with a lifelong passion. "I've been fascinated by communications ever since I was a kid with two tin cans and a taut string between them...
...principal reporting for the story was done by New York Correspondent Bruce van Voorst, who spent five weeks talking with senior executives at IBM's headquarters in Armonk, N.Y., visiting two of the company's major manufacturing centers, and surveying the views of industry consultants and Wall Street analysts. Van Voorst faced several challenges on the assignment, not all of them journalistic. For one thing, he says, "IBM is a large and swiftly moving target. A list I made of two weeks of its activities would be many another company's annual report." Another problem...
...just tear it out. People have made the investment, and they'll live with it." Coping with a bear market in oil will require some adjusting, but all things considered, it is a pleasant prospect. - By John Greenwald. Reported by William Stewart/Beirut and Bruce van Voorst/ New York, with other bureaus
...papacy and Protestant trends. Washington Reporter Jim Castelli was once religion editor of the Washington Star. Reporter-Researcher Michael Harris attended a Roman Catholic seminary for five years, and taught ancient and medieval philosophy, Latin and Greek at another seminary for three. New York Correspondent Bruce van Voorst has interviewed theologians from Rudolf Bultmann to Hans Küng, while Chicago Correspondent J. Madeleine Nash covered the final days of Bernardin's controversial predecessor, the late John Cardinal Cody. Says she: "After the remoteness of the old-style bishops, Bernardin seems refreshingly approachable...
Reported by Gisela Bolte/ Washington and Bruce van Voorst/ New York