Life Magazine, December 29, 1972 - Composite: The Year in Pictures

Original Life Magazine from December 29, 1972 - Composite: The Year in Pictures

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Some of the contents in this issue

Special double issue. A long letter from the editor about this being the last issue of LIFE. Vietnam. Apollo 17 mission to the moon, includes photos of all the different Apollo astronaut crews. Harry Truman, another nice illustration by Thomas B. Allen. Nixon in China. Northern Ireland. Two page color Chevrolet ad featuring Castle Rock, Deidre Daniels, Doug Mahoney. Full page color Old Gold cigarettes ad with ice sailboat. Liz Taylor and Liza Minnelli. Munich Olympic tragedy, Israeli team. The bare look - fashions, more. Democrats. Solzhenitsyn. Olympics. Mobility. Uganda, Idi Amin. Population control. South Vietnam. Movie - the Godfather. The George Wallace Shooting. Superstars, Swimmer Mark Spitz and Chess player Bobby Fischer. Floods, including a photo of Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania that looks just like New Orleans after Katrina, flooded and burning. . Howard Hughes, Nina, the fake autobiography. McGovern's campaign. Skyjacking, Hijacking - the fruitless war against air crime. Kentucky Derby and Riva Ridge, cool photos in color. Some great short follow-ups to the people in stories earlier in 1972 - for example, Mike and Tammy of LIFE May 5, 1972 turned out to be Tamara and Brian Woodruff. Humorously enough, some copies of this last issue included a card encouraging you to take out a LIFE magazine subscription. 1.1

Table of 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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