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Desperate Pleas. On the back of the card she writes: "President Nixon, the smiles on our faces don't represent happiness or joy during the Advent season. This Christmas marks our sixth without Donald J. Rander, a prisoner of war in South Viet Nam. May you and your family have a happy holiday season. Andrea, Lysa and Page Rander." Too cryptic for comfort, perhaps, but as Mrs. Rander notes: "I wasn't trying to be sarcastic. I just wanted to get the point across." She also remarks that she voted for Nixon this year, though other blacks tried...
Shared was the operative word. It applied to the LIFE staff, which was held together by an extraordinary esprit de corps, and it applied to the readers, who had a sense of common participation in human events that nothing else could provide-until the advent of TV. From the start, LIFE took hold of the imagination. Its editors could have been content to let it remain a national scrapbook, but at its heart there was an animal curiosity. As Photographer John Dominis said, "You worked closely with people, individual friends, for three or four weeks, perhaps sometimes three or four...
...scientist noted that prehistorians and archaeologists had previously placed the advent of communication with the Homo sapiens sapiens, which followed Cro-Magnon in evolution...
will give an Advent Organ Recital on Sunday, December 10, at 4 p.m. at Harvard-Epworth Church, 1555 Mass. Ave. He will play pieces by Muffat, Brevi. Verschraegen, the Fantasy and Fugue in G Minor by Bach, and the Partita, Wachet auf by Hugo Distler...
...problem dates to 1950. Life's form of photojournalism and its appeal as an advertising medium were weakened by the advent of television," Louis Slovinsky, manager of Press Relations, said. The magazine's losses were "especially discouraging in light of the upsurge in the economy and the success of other news magazines...