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- <title>
- Feb. 20, 1989: From The Publisher
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Feb. 20, 1989 Betrayal:Marine Spy Scandal
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- FROM THE PUBLISHER, Page 4
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- <p> Fresh out of the University of Pennsylvania, a 22-year-old
- from Illinois named Donald Morrison landed a job at TIME in New
- York City and was searching for an apartment on the Upper West
- Side. This otherwise ordinary venture happened to occur in the
- extraordinary year of 1968. And so Morrison, looking for a
- Columbia University student willing to share his digs, found
- himself instead stranded inside Hamilton Hall just as campus
- activists took over the building. To escape, Morrison recalls,
- "I dived out a bathroom window in the back."
- </p>
- <p> Twenty years later, we tapped Morrison for the job of
- bringing that tragic, pulsating, mythical year into perspective
- for our first TIME pictorial collector's edition, 1968: The
- Year That Shaped a Generation. A true child of the '60s,
- Morrison, now special projects editor, had even planned to spend
- his honeymoon at the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago,
- until his bride-to-be put her foot down. In 1968, he says, "we
- tried to capture something of the year's amazing, compelling
- electricity."
- </p>
- <p> On your newsstand and at other outlets through March for
- $3.95, 1968 recaptures familiar and forgotten images in an
- indelible 112-page eyewitness to history. "A lot went past me at
- the time," recalls picture editor Suzanne Richie, who was 24
- years old and living in Minnesota in 1968. But poring over
- 4,000 photos to make her final selections of 150 images, she
- felt "a shock of recognition and then the realization -- my God,
- all this happened in 1968?" Like her, you will rediscover the
- astonishing roller coaster of events, from the tragic (Robert
- Kennedy's vacant stare from the floor of the Los Angeles hotel
- pantry) to the trivial (a miniskirt dotted with peace symbols).
- Incredibly, to those of us who lived through that tumultuous
- year, today's 20-year-olds study the events of 1968 in their
- history classes. Art director Christine Castigliano was only
- nine years old the first time around. But for her the complex
- year is captured dramatically by the special edition's cover
- image: two daisies and a bullet. The stark contrast "showed how
- jarring a time it was," she says. "I wanted to symbolize the
- energy and the explosiveness."
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