By Milton Glaser.

WE are both relieved and delighted that Correspondent Robert Anson has been released after 21 days as a captive of anti-government forces in Cambodia. Fifteen pounds lighter, thanks to the largely rice diet, but none the worse for wear, Anson arrived early last week in Phnom-Penh, where he was soon reunited with his wife Diane. From there, the couple flew to Saigon for a festive gathering with members of the Saigon bureau and Time-Life News Service Chief Murray Gart, who flew in from Europe via Tashkent. Gart arrived with champagne, a tin of caviar and a bottle of vodka, which formed the first course of a feast that lasted well into the night, as Anson set about regaining some of those lost pounds. He reports on his experience in this week's World section.

One would suspect the marriage rare in which both partners rise to worldwide prominence. Yet this week's cover story on Actor Elliott Gould marks the 42nd occasion that both a husband and wife, either current or ex, have appeared on the cover of TIME. Gould's estranged wife, Barbra Streisand, was featured in the April 10, 1964 issue.

In most cases, the couples have made it for their individual news value, not for something they did, or did not do, as a family. Britain's Queen Elizabeth has been on the cover five times, more than any other woman, but never with Prince Philip, who made it once in his own right. Between them, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt were reported in twelve cover stories (she in four and he in eight), but they too never appeared together. All told, only 14 couples have been featured together, led by Generalissimo and Madame Chiang Kaishek, who were pictured twice. Jacqueline Kennedy was a solo cover subject as First Lady, and also with Husas First Lady, and also with Husbands John F. Kennedy and Aristotle Onassis. Some other famous pairs were Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, Luci Baines Johnson and Pat Nugent, and Lynn Fontanne with Alfred Lunt. -

The reporting for this week's story was largely the responsibility of New York Bureau Correspondent Mary Cronin, who spent several days interviewing Gould at his Greenwich Village home. She also talked with Gould's mother Lucille. Researcher Patsy Beckert added further insight by interviewing his father, Bernard Goldstein, and people from his early show business days. West Coast Correspondents David Whiting and Martin Sullivan rounded out the report to Jay Cocks, who wrote the finished story, and Peter Bird Martin, who edited it.

The Cover: Color drawing by Milton Glaser.

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