Description
Original LIFE Magazine — August 25, 1967
This is an authentic original issue of LIFE Magazine published August 25, 1967 — a real piece of American history, carefully preserved and ready to give, collect, or display.
Cover Subject: A U.S. Marine walking with an injured Vietnamese boy in a village during the Vietnam War.
Inside This Issue: Features LIFE’s report, The “Other War” in Vietnam: To Keep a Village Free, examining the effort to protect Vietnamese civilians and villages during the conflict, along with the original news, photography, advertising, politics, culture, and features from August 25, 1967.
Completeness: Complete original issue, including the original pages, photographs, stories, and advertisements. Not a reproduction or modern reprint.
Perfect For: Vietnam War veterans and families, U.S. Marine Corps collectors, military-history enthusiasts, photojournalism collectors, 1960s history readers, 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: Measuring Vietnam’s Elections
Pg… 4 Opinion and Comment: Editorials: Plan for a Park for the Crowded East
Pg… 6–12 Opinion and Comment: Reviews: Book: Maurice Edelman’s “Shark Island,” Reviewed by Anthony Burgess
Pg… 6–12 Opinion and Comment: Reviews: Movie: “Privilege,” with Paul Jones and Jean Shrimpton, Reviewed by Richard Schickel
Pg… 6–12 Opinion and Comment: Reviews: Theater: “The Unknown Soldier and His Wife,” by Peter Ustinov, Reviewed by Tom Prideaux
Pg… 21 Opinion and Comment: Letters to the Editors
Pg… 22 Opinion and Comment: Guest Column: In Defense of Old Folks Over 25. By Albert Rosenfeld
Pg… 24 The Week’s News and Features: To Keep a Village Free: As Part of the Pacification Campaign in Vietnam, a Combined Action Platoon of U.S. Marines and South Vietnamese Soldiers Pursues Its Perilous Mission of Defending and Befriending a Hamlet Threatened by the Vietcong. Photographs by Co Rentmeester. Article by Don Moser
Pg… 30 The Week’s News and Features: The ‘Other’ Pacification: With a Rash of Patchwork, Make–Do Slum Programs the U.S. Tries to Cool Urban Ghettos that are Close to the Flashpoint
Pg… 34B The Week’s News and Features: The Presidency: A View from the Heartland. By Hugh Sidey
Pg… 37 The Week’s News and Features: Close–Up: Film–Maker Bruce Brown and His Endless Summer. “I Hope You Enjoy My Movie”?and They Did. By Gilbert Moore
Pg… 44 The Week’s News and Features: To See America: A Houseful of History: A Tour of the Elegant 248–Year–Old Farmhouse White Chimneys Near Lancaster, Pa. photographed by Nina Leen. Penn’s Deed and Washington’s Lost Knife. By Dora Jane Hamblin
Pg… 66 The Week’s News and Features: How Golden is the Dollar?: As U.S. Bullion Reserves Dwindle to $13 Billion, and With No End to the Outflow in Sight, the Dollar is in Deep Trouble. By John K. Jessup
Pg… 77 The Week’s News and Features: Science: A Mouse Breathes Liquid?and Lives. How a Man Might Learn to do the Same
Pg… 80 The Week’s News and Features: Fashion: Well–Dressed Moll Styles in Alcatraz
Pg… 85 The Week’s News and Features: Art: Picasso’s Five–Story Tall, 162–Ton Sculpture for Chicago’s Civic Center
Pg… 88 The Week’s News and Features: Miscellany
