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LIFE Dec 29, 1972

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Contents

Life's last issue: a message to our readers
1
Life (Periodical)
Peace that soured
2
Henry Kissinger; 1923-., Vietnamese War, 1957-1975 (Peace and mediation)
Waste of war; the North and the South
4
Vietnamese War, 1957-1975 (Destruction and pillage)
One last fiery hurrah for Apollo
6
Project Apollo (Apollo 17 flight)
Man of independence, and grit
10
Harry S. Truman; 1884-1972
Gallery of foul-ups
44
Olympic Games, 1972 (Munich, Germany)
Big daddy Amin rules a country in big trouble
48
Idi Amin; 1925-2003, Uganda (Politics and government)
Bottom drops out of the baby boom
52
Birth control
War and Kim Phuc, memories masked by a smile
54
Vietnamese War, 1957-1975 (Casualties, Children)
Up, down and around; the dice roll for '72
56
Celebrities, Current events
Nixon tries a new course in China
14
Richard Milhous Nixon; 1913-1994 (Visit to China, 1972)
One more call to reason together
16
Lyndon Baines Johnson; 1908-1973, Civil rights
He hobnobs in Russia with the party boss
16
Richard Milhous Nixon; 1913-1994 (Visit to the Soviet Union, 1972)
Year in television
20
Television broadcasting
Year in movies
22
Motion pictures (Reviews)
Year in books
24
Books and reading (Bibliography)
Bloody spiral of unyielding fury
32
Terrorism (Northern Ireland)
Liz and Liza: blossoming, still blooming
34
Liza Minnelli, Elizabeth Taylor; 1932-.
Message was no peace in our time
36
Olympic Games, 1972 (Munich, Germany), Terrorism (Germany (West))
Clothes for summer, just barely
38
Clothing and dress
Glum, glum, glum
40
Democratic Party (U.S.), Presidential candidates (1972)
Under heavy attack, the writer stands firm
43
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Russian novelist.); 1918-
They made us a movie we couldn't refuse
58
Mafia, Motion pictures (Plots, themes, etc)
Wallace shooting
60
George Corley Wallace; 1919-1998 (Assassination attempts)
Certain smile of champions
62
Mark Spitz (American swimmer.), Bobby Fischer (American chess player.); 1943-2008
Deadly tumult of high water
64
Floods
Autobiography that wasn't
66
Howard Hughes (American airline, aircraft and motion picture executive.); 1905-1976, Clifford Irving (American writer.), Richard Suskind, Hoaxes
One singing swinging winner
68
Nina van Pallandt (baronesse.)
Four blows that crippled McGovern's campaign
71
George Stanley McGovern; 1922-., Democratic Party (U.S.), Presidential campaigns (1972)
Fruitless war against crime in the air
81
Airplane hijacking
Kentucky Derby: champ called Riva Ridge and 15 also-rans
84
Horse racing, Race horses
250,000 children have their say
87
Children (Attitudes)
Whatever became of--? Follow-up on a few faces
90
Life (Periodical), Celebrities, Current events
With pride and affection: Life's last issue
96
Life (Periodical)

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Minneapolis - Page 69
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Munich - Page 36
But the dream ended in Munich when eight members of an Arab group invaded the Israeli team's quarters, killing two Israelis and capturing nine others. ...
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In Paris (above), he's called le Parrain; in Madrid, he's el Padrino. Whether he's Kummiseta (Finland), 6 Novos (Greece), Gudfadern (Sweden) or il ...