Description
Original LIFE Magazine — August 18, 1967
This is an authentic original issue of LIFE Magazine published August 18, 1967 — a real piece of American history, carefully preserved and ready to give, collect, or display.
Cover Subject: International fashion model Veruschka, photographed at the height of her 1960s fame.
Inside This Issue: Features LIFE’s profile of Veruschka, the striking German fashion model known for her dramatic presence and unconventional beauty, along with the original news, photography, advertising, fashion, culture, and features from August 18, 1967.
Completeness: Complete original issue, including the original pages, photographs, stories, and advertisements. Not a reproduction or modern reprint.
Perfect For: Fashion-history collectors, Veruschka admirers, 1960s style enthusiasts, vintage photography collectors, modeling-history fans, LIFE Magazine collectors, and anyone who wants a meaningful gift from a specific date or year.
Original LIFE Magazines are authentic issues published between 1936 and 2000.
Pg… 4 Opinion and Comment: Editorials: Water to Cool the Middle East
Pg… 4 Opinion and Comment: Editorials: The Tax: Painful but Necessary 8,
Pg… 12 Opinion and Comment: Reviews: Movie: “The Big City,” Reviewed by Richard Schickel 8,
Pg… 12 Opinion and Comment: Reviews: Book: John Fetterman’s “Stinking Creek,” Reviewed by Stewart L. Udall
Pg… 19 Opinion and Comment: Letters to the Editors
Pg… 20 Opinion and Comment: The View from Here: Rituals of a Long Farwell. By Loudon Wainwright
Pg… 22 The Week’s News and Features: Imperative Privacy for L.B.J.: As the Nation’s Crises Pile Up in the Worst Summer Any President has Faced in Modern Times. Johnson Takes Strength from Interludes in His Native Texas Hill Country. By Hugh Sidey. Photographed by Robert Lebeck
Pg… 30 The Week’s News and Features: On the Newsfronts of the World: From Havana, a Wild Cry for More Revolutions
Pg… 35 The Week’s News and Features: Close–Up: His Sitar Sound Rocks the U.S.: how India’s Ravi Shankar Became a Pop Hero. By Jon Borgzinner
Pg… 45 The Week’s News and Features: The Girl Everybody Stares At: Veruschka, the World’s Most Sought–After Fashion Model. Photographed by Franco Rubartelli. Not so Bad to be Different. By Rudolph Chelminski
Pg… 56A The Week’s News and Features: Sports: Red Sox Slugger “Yaz” Yastrzemski Finds That Pressure can Be Fun
Pg… 60 The Week’s News and Features: New Rules for the Singles Game: Helping Girls Meet Boys, and Vice Versa, Becomes a Lively U.S. Industry
Pg… 69 The Week’s News and Features: Business: A Grueling Interview for Executives After Bigger Jobs: Test by Stress. By Chris Welles
Pg… 76 The Week’s News and Features: Art: Hidden in a Bramble Patch, an Old Lady Finds Sudden Success with Her Patchwork Pictures
Pg… 81 The Week’s News and Features: Movies: A Planet Gone Ape. Makers of a New Fantasy Film Use $1 Million Worth of Make–Up to Obliterate Some Famous Faces
Pg… 84 The Week’s News and Features: Miscellany
