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...shouldered an exhausting work load. Since the South Vietnamese rout began in mid-March, the special Indochina section has logged 70-and 80-hour weeks, producing the articles that went with seven of the past eight TIME covers. The staff, under Senior Editors John Elson, Jason McManus and Ronald Kriss, has consisted of members of both our Nation and World sections. The principal contributors: Associate Editors Frank Merrick, Burton Pines and William Smith, Reporter-Researchers Marta Dorion, Sara Medina, Betty Suyker, Susan Reed and Genevieve Wilson. Staff Writer Richard Bernstein, our resident China-watcher, who traveled through the putative "domino...
John Elson, Marshall Loeb and Ronald Kriss. They worked with 18 writers and reporter-researchers from the Nation and World sections, four picture researchers and dozens of correspondents round the world. From Danang, where U.S. Marines first waded ashore into Viet Nam, Correspondent William McWhirter witnessed hysteria as Communist forces surrounded the city. At midweek, McWhirter was ordered out on an emergency evacuation flight to Saigon...
...assisted by Reporter-Researcher Sara Medina, who has been working on China stories for TIME since before the Cultural Revolution in 1966. From Washington, Diplomatic Editor Jerrold Schecter, who accompanied Henry Kissinger on several Peking visits., reported the assessments of State Department China experts. Says Senior Editor Ron Kriss, who supervised the cover project, "The People's Congress marks a new stability in Chinese politics- at least for now - and the decisions ratified there will affect China for the rest of the century...
...task of overseeing the entire leadership project fell to Senior Editor Ronald P. Kriss. A Harvard graduate, Kriss worked for two years as executive editor of the Saturday Review and has been at TIME for ten years. Says Kriss: "Our portfolio went through five versions - which shows that there's a tremendous pool of talent around." We don't suggest that readers will agree with every choice, but we do hope that they will be stimulated to think about who the nation's leaders are - and what their roles should...
...editors refuse to blame the debacle on the magazines themselves. "Editorial quality had nothing to do with this equation," Kriss maintains. Within the limits imposed by the four separate topics, the editors did attract some offbeat, incisive articles; they gave specialists like Sociologist Daniel Bell and Education Reformer Ivan Illich access to a large readership. SR's graphics improved mightily, and each magazine boasted a strong review section. Still, the clear new identity sought for each of the monthlies never took shape...