Life Magazine, April 7, 1972 - Composite: The Oscars

With the IRA - pictures of the outlaw army in violent action. Reader questionnaire - how good is your medical care? The smallest horse, Coco - a life-size one month old portrait, owned by Rayford Ely. Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee gather in a Denver hospital to question Dita Beard. Full page photos of two POWs in Vietnam Edwin A. Hawley and Kenneth J. Fraser. Very unusual two page color Beautyrest mattress ad with two people sleeping on mattress floating in the ocean. Photos and clips from 21 years ago in LIFE, 1951. More fighting in Ulster, Ireland. Two page color Chevrolet ad with Nova Coupe, family, Delta Queen riverboat on the Mississippi river. One-sided conversation with novelist Cynthia Buchanan. Search for the last Ivory-billed woodpecker, with John Dennis, written by Don Moser, illustrations by John Groth - a big article. Tenor Luciano Pavarotti weighs in at the Met. Judy Strickland, head nurse, struggles with an almost impossible job at Ward H-5 New York Hospital, includes Patti Cullinan, Elizabeth Traynor, Harriet Fishlowitz, more. Professional wrestling (Like WWF), Ernie Ladd, Mil Mascaras, Bronko Lubich, Chris Markoff, more.