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DIED. GEORGE SILK, 87, a LIFE photographer for three decades; in Norwalk, Conn. A New Zealand native, he joined LIFE during World War II. He was with U.S. forces at the Battle of the Bulge and was the first to photograph the city of Nagasaki after the Japanese city was hit by an atom bomb. After the war, he adapted a photo-finish camera meant for horse racing into an instrument for capturing athletes in motion...
Nanbei street, a ragged strip of asphalt not far from the south bank of the Yellow River, used to be the embodiment of China's racial harmony. Each day, the Muslim call to prayer from Nanren village, populated with the Hui descendants of Silk Road traders, mixed in with the calls to commerce from the vegetable market in the neighboring Weitang village, inhabited by China's Han majority. As testament to its ethnic tolerance, Nanbei Street is lined with fresh-meat stands catering equally to the dietary preferences of the Han and the Hui. Last week, though, after a traffic...
...three weeks after his 81-year-old father, Norodom Sihanouk, abruptly announced he would abdicate; in Phnom Penh. Sihamoni, who was educated in Prague and spent most of his adult life in Paris, was the center of a spectacular ceremony involving 52 Buddhist monks and was crowned after eight silk-robed courtiers carried him into the royal palace, where he and his father had been held for three years under the Khmer Rouge...
Outfitted in a sleek pair of Seven jeans, a slippery silk camisole, sparkling chandelier earrings, and, of course, painfully beautiful stilettos, I sauntered out of Currier on the night of my birthday. Joining my girlfriends, fittingly attired in sleek jeans, slippery camis, and blisteringly wonderful heels, we boarded the shuttle...
...DIED. GEORGE SILK, 87, a Life photographer for three decades; in Norwalk, Connecticut. A native of New Zealand, he joined Life during World War II; he was with American forces in the Battle of the Bulge and was the first to photograph the city of Nagasaki, Japan, when it was hit by an atom bomb. After the war, he adapted a photo-finish camera meant for horseracing into an instrument for capturing athletes in motion. In 1972, he was in Nepal on assignment when he got the news that Life had folded; he responded with ?Your message ... badly garbled. Please...