VTG Life Magazine April 8, 1966 Rhodes Scholar Capt. Pete Dawkins

VTG Life Magazine April 8, 1966 Rhodes Scholar Capt. Pete Dawkins

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Pg 4 - Editorial:

• The Ecumenical Spirit, Easter, 1966

Pg 10 - LIFE Reviews:

• Books: Reynolds Price's "A Generous Man," reviewed by William McPherson; and Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s "Player Piano" and "Mother Night," reviewed by R. Z. Sheppard
• Movie: "Born Free," reviewed by Richard Schickel

Pg 22 - Letters to the Editors

Pg 25 - The View from Here:

• "A Breakthrough in R.S.V.P.–ism." By Loudon Wainwright

Pg 26 - The Red Romance That Went Sour:

• As world communist leaders gather in Moscow, the Chinese point up the Sino–Soviet alienation by staying away

Pg 36 - Death of a Mountain Climber:

• Five men scale Switzerland's murderous Eiger, but a sixth, an American who had premonitions, slips and falls

Pg 38 - State Visit by India's Indira

Pg 43 - Cassius Is Fouled—but Wins

Pg 44 - Harold Wilson's Big Election Victory:

• Britain's Right Honorable Prime Minister is a right remarkable man. By Jim Hicks

Pg 47 - The Unconquerable Quixote:

• Cervantes' addled knight triumphs on stage. "The Man of La Mancha" breaks the rules. By Tom Prideaux

Pg 57 - Bay State's Color-Blind Candidate:

• Ed Brooke, a Negro, runs for the U.S. Senate

Pg 67 - Masha and Dasha:

• Rare study of Russia's Siamese twins

Pg 72 - Fashions with Carnival Flair

Pg 80A - Granddad in the Steeplechase:

• A 66-year-old horseman rides in the perilous Grand National

Pg 87 - 'Constructive Alarm' in Gemini 8:

• The astronauts' own story of an unscheduled spin in space. By Neil Armstrong and David Scott

Pg 91 - Pete Dawkins in Vietnam:

• West Point's great football star is an Army captain who practiced the delicate art of "advising" South Vietnamese combat troops. By Sam Angeloff

Pg 102 - Greatest Train Robbery Legend:

• Two and a half years after the theft of two tons of money, Britons still marvel. By Paul O'Neil

Pg 116 - Eight-Sided Gambol by 'The Group':

• A fascinating film from Mary McCarthy's tattletale novel about Vassar grads

Pg 124 - Miscellany:

• "Hey, Daddy? Remember Me?"