 Complete the following phrase:  MacPherson spent six years in the Marine Corps Reserves, starting in 1965. Working at Time magazine as a trainee, he was fired after throwing a drink in an editors face while attending a holiday party. He started working for Newsweek magazine in 1968, first as a national correspondent, providing coverage from cities in the United States including Boston, Chicago and Los Angeles. Five years later, he started taking on overseas assignments, including covering the Yom Kippur War in 1973, the 1974 