Reporter Robert S. Elegant's job gives him eyestrain. It is also loaded, he says, with "frustrations" and "annoyances." It lacks "both glamour and definition." Worst of all, he never gets the chance for firsthand observation of the very. place he is covering. No matter.
Elegant would not trade his particular job for any other in journalism. As the Los Angeles Times's man in Hong Kong, he is one of the best of that hardy breed of second-hand news gatherers, the China watchers.
Though Red China will not permit him or any other U.S. reporter to enter the country, Elegant, at 38,...
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