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...weekly and monthly editions as well as in specials and books, LIFE chronicled the world in pictures, proving time and again, even as video technologies exploded and our ideas of sensory experience expanded, that there was what Luce called "a dynamic power" in the still image. A photograph could command attention and demand contemplation--it could evoke or provoke an emotion--in a way that words, standing alone, simply could...
...characters filtered into the counterculture of the '60s; the Grateful Dead's defiantly grubby organist, Ron McKernan, was nicknamed Pig Pen; another San Francisco rock band that formed in 1966 called itself Sopwith Camel. As American soldiers stenciled Snoopy onto their helmets and the Apollo 10 astronauts christened their command module Charlie Brown and their lunar landing vehicle Snoopy, Schulz left his imprimatur on the Cold War's highest and lowest moments - the race to put a man on the moon and the war in Vietnam...
...Horizon: Increased tension over Kosovo?s future, and a major showdown between Washington and its European allies over proposals to withdraw U.S. forces from Balkans peacekeeping. The Europeans have warned that the U.S. will cede its right to command NATO forces in Europe if it refuses to have its troops on the frontline...
...First woman to command a U.S. warship; mother of two adopted Russian children...
...alleged plot to bomb U.S.S. The Sullivans when it refueled in Aden on Jan. 3, 2000. Increasing the worry this year is the flurry of preparations for the impending Inauguration of George W. Bush, the son of the man who waged the Persian Gulf War. The FBI's crisis command center is operating 24-7, with agents working through the Christmas and New Year's holidays. As the Inauguration approaches, the FBI, DOD, Secret Service and other local and federal units will run counterterror exercises in the Washington area...