Life Magazine, August 21, 1970 - Midiskirts in fashion

Very cute photo of women in miniskirt holding up a midi skirt, great feature article inside, crochet was in, too, Rock Hudson doesn't like midis. Chevrolet actually boasts in its full page Vega ad that it will get 25 MPG more of less. Bloody breakout attempt from a courtroom at San Rafael leaves the judge and three men dead, William Christmas, James D. McClain, Judge Harold Haley, Jonathan Jackson. Neat color filtered photos of fruit by Ellen Rogin. A short piece about horse racing at the Saratoga race track. Nana Opoku Ware II is installed as head of the Ashanti tribe in Ghana, a photo of true excess. Arab-Israeli cease-fire on the Suez, shows candid troop conditions. Charlie Manson "family" waits at their ranch while he faces murder charges, Danny Beausoleil, Catherine Share, Mary Brunner, Chuck Lovett, Ginney Gentry, Cathy Gillis, Lynn Fromme, Sandra Good Pugh, and Ruth Ann More house. Affluent Americans are eating too much of the wrong kinds of food. Complaints of racial problems arise during filming of "Halls of Anger", photos of director Paul Bogard; star Calvin Lockhart. Turning on with alpha waves. French balloonist Louis Allione. Parting Shots - Lucy, the 65-foot-high wood-and-tin pachyderm at Margate, New Jersey, has to pack her trunk and move away. Full page color Sears ad with Spyder 500 bicycle.