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When the exhibition at the National Gallery closes on Aug. 18, Washingtonians will still be able to consult an important African collection: that of the Museum of African Art, housed in seven Victorian houses and now in its twelfth year, newly fortified by the collection and archives (almost 100,000 photographs) of the late Eliot Elisofon. No other photographer has ever covered Africa with more energy and knowledge than Elisofon, who contributed to LIFE for 35 years and was one of the first trustees of the Museum of African Art. Elisofon's collection of African art comprised more than...
...Nelson Shields was mentioned as the twelfth victim of the Zebra killings in San Francisco [April 29]. To the few who knew him, he was more than a statistic, more than a picture on a page...
...moving a rug. Still clad in his playing shorts, sweatshirt and tennis shoes, he leaned over the trunk of a car to make room for the rug, when three fatal pistol shots whizzed seemingly out of nowhere and hit him in the back. Shields' death was the twelfth in the series of bizarre, random "Zebra" attacks -apparently not linked with the S.L.A.-that have plagued the city for 21 terrifying weeks; six other people have been wounded. All the victims have been whites, and the Zebra killer is described as a black man who strikes in the early evening...
...waiver marked only the twelfth time that the U.S. has relaxed the Cuba trade boycott since it was imposed by the OAS in 1964. "The excellent relations between us and the Argentine government are very important to us," explained a State Department spokesman just before the decision was announced, "and we do not want to do anything that would affect those ties...
...common agreement, the finest throwing arm in the history of the U.S. Military Academy belongs to Omar Nelson Bradley, Class of '15. After a distinguished career as outfielder for the West Point baseball team, Bradley went on to make a succession of spectacular martial catches: commander of the Twelfth Army in World War II, postwar Veterans Administrator, first Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and, at 81, the only living five-star General of the Army. Bradley returned last week to the ivied walls on the Hudson for the dedication of the Omar N. Bradley Library, which will...