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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. (ironically, some copies of this last issue included a card encouraging you to take out a LIFE magazine subscription)
