Exclusive MORE MAGAZINES detailed content description, below! * LIFE Magazine Classic LIFE Magazine, with all the great photographs, features, writers, vintage advertisements and MORE -- Exclusive MORE MAGAZINES detailed content description, below! * ISSUE DATE: APRIL 7, 1972; VOL. 72, NO. 13 IN THIS ISSUE:- [Detailed contents description written EXCLUSIVELY for this listing by MORE MAGAZINES! Use 'Control F' to search this page.] * This description copyright MOREMAGAZINES. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 COVER: HOW THEY PICK THE OSCARS. Cover Design by Eugene Light. EDITORS' NOTE: A backstage look at the Oscar melodrama: Behind the suspense of Academy Awards night there has always been a mystery of another order; namely, just how do the lucky names get into those envelopes? The procedure--an amazingly intricae Academy voting system, cloaked in Byzantine secretiveness and and spiced with industry infighting--is described in this week's cover story, the work of Los Angeles Correspondent Judy Fayard and Photographer Bill Eppridge. THE BEAT OF LIFE: Sweatsuit samurai. The smallest horse. Hearing in a hospital. Two POWs. IN ACTION WITH THE IRA: As Britain cancels home rule in Northern IRELAND, the outlaw army fights on. Photographed by P. Michael O'Sullivan. Text by Cohn Leinster. CINDERELLA OF THE SWINGLES: A one-sided conversation with the Maiden lady, novelist CYNTHIA BUCHANAN. By Michael Durham. THE OSCAR GAME: Behind the secrecy of the annual extravaganza. THE LAST IVORY BILL: A search for the woodpecker that is the rarest creature on earth. By Don Moser. illustrations by John Groth. TONNAGE ON THE HIGH C'S: Tenor LUCIANO PAVAROTTI weighs in at the Met. By Joan Downs. MORE THAN COMPASSION: Judy Strickland, head nurse in a hospital medical ward, struggles with an almost impossible job. Photographed by Grey VilIet. Text by Barbara Villet. A LIFE QUESTIONNAIRE: What do you think of your medical care?. PARTING SHOTS: Alger Hiss: "By 80, I'll be a respected man." By Thomas Moore. Dewi Sukarno: losing a book, gaining a husband. Rousin' rebirth of rasslin'. DEPARTMENTS: Editorials: Last chance in Ireland. The ITT hassle. THE PRESIDENCY: Thorns among the tulips. By Hugh Sidey. REVIEWS: Cyclops is appalled by the Dean Martin Show. Richard Schickel enjoys What's Up, Doc?. Gary Wills on two views of Agnew, Spiro Agnew's America, by Theo Lippman Jr., and White Knight, by Jules Witcover. Marcia Seligson explains why the army is star-crossed. 21 YEARS AGO IN 'LIFE': Eugene Smith's great photographic essay on life and death in a Spanish village. LETTERS TO THE EDITORS. * NOTE: OUR content description is GUARANTEED accurate for THIS magazine. Editions are not always the same, even with the same title, cover and issue date. This description copyright MOREMAGAZINES. 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Oversized magazine, Approx 10oe" X 13". COMPLETE and in VERY GOOD condition. (See photo) A great snapshot of the time, and a terrific Birthday present or Anniversary gift! Careful packaging, Fast shipping, ALL GUARANTEED --