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Appropriately enough, given the history of mutual suspicion between human beings and felines, an informal poll of staffers who worked on the story reveals a roughly even split between cat defenders and detractors. "Cats are more photogenic than dogs," says Photographer Neil Leifer, who took the cover photo and five other pictures for the story, "but I'm much more a dog person." Leifer owns two dogs, a Hungarian sheep dog and a golden retriever, and has no plans to inflict a cat on them. Rosemarie Tauris, one of the story's reporter-researchers, has no pets...
...Spencer crouched in a fourth-floor window and photographed the royal procession. Nearby, Dirck Halstead snapped the passing parade, then joined other photographers in a champagne toast for the bride and bridegroom. After taking pictures of the fireworks display in Hyde Park on the eve of the wedding, Neil Leifer grabbed three hours of sleep before moving into place outside Buckingham Palace at 5:30 a.m. Says he: "The combination of the handsome royal couple, glinting horse-drawn carriages and waving British flags was a photographer's dream...
...striking photographs that accompany the story, Photographer Neil Leifer spent four days in basic training with a brigade at Fort Knox, Ky., while Photographer Mark Meyer visited a strategic Air Force base in the Northeast and joined a B-52 bomber crew on a simulated nuclear-alert mission. After getting a look at a Boeing air-launched cruise missile plant in Seattle, Meyer moved on to Eglin Air Force base in Florida, where he covered one of the largest peacetime parachute drops in U.S. history. Says he: "It's one thing to read about military hardware in the newspapers...
Whatever the subject of his photography, Leifer brings to it an uncompromising attention to detail and an unerring sense for the right moment. TIME Picture Editor Arnold Drapkin recalls that Leifer "kept New York City Mayor Edward Koch standing at the edge of the East River for an hour until he felt that the light on the skyline behind him was right. In a sense, he 'directs' his photographs." Such talents have served Leifer well. In England last year, he directed his first movie, Yesterday's Hero, about an aging soccer star...
...assignment to shoot Bear Bryant, Leifer says, "Pictures for TIME require so much more than game action. I've covered an awful lot of football at Alabama, but I'd never even met Bryant before. This time I had to shoot him at home with his wife and in his office, as well as on the football field." Leifer found him a very private man, but surprisingly cooperative. "He even allowed me to shoot him in front of the bench, where no one is usually permitted. From a distance, he seems aloof, uninvolved. It is only from...