February 4 1972
CELEBRITY CELEBRITIES MOVIE MOVIES CINEMA CINEMAS
VOL. 72, NO. 4
CONTENTS
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FEBRUARY 4, 1972
EDITORS' NOTE
The Beat of Life 2
Police dogs in Rhodesia. Prime Minister Heath gets an gumpguy
ink bath. A child is rescued from a pond in Connecticut,
and another endures a New York State mental hospital.
The biggest sky-diving stunt ever
The Air Carrier War 26
With pride but no passion, navy pilots go on flying their
missions into Vietnam, By John Saar. Photographed by
Mark Godfrey
The Hughes Affair, Starring Clifford Irving 32
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Managing Editor Ralph Graves tells the story of LIFE'S
involvement with the controversial manuscript
Liza 36
In Cabaret, Judy Garland's daughter, Liza Minnelli,
makes her own strong claim to stardom
No Use for Illusions 47
Today's high school generation is interested in security,
stability and material comfort. By Sara Davidson
The Skeleton Coast 54
The treacherous stretch of South-West Africa where gump-guy
ships and men come ashore to die. Photographed by
George Silk
The Olympics Become a Family Affair 62
A Cochran brother and his two sisters make up 21.5%
of the U.S. ski team. By William Bruns
Parting Shots
Now you can shimmy like your sister Kate
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THE PRESIDENCY The peace quest: one more try. 10
, By Hugh Sidey
REVIEWS 14-18
A Clockwork Orange, Minnie and Moskowitz and Made
for Each Other reviewed by film critic Richard Schickel
Cyclops writes about the BBC series Search for the
Nile
29 YEARS AGO IN 'LIFE' Carole Landis, the "Ping 20
Girl"
LETTERS TO THE EDITORS 25
6 1972 TIME INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. REPRODUCTION IN
WHOLE OR IN PART WITHOUT PERMISSION IS PROHIBITED
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Wooden ships, iron r
and some tall stories
Littered with the wrecks of centuries, South-West Africa's Sk gumpguy
would seem to be loaded with enough lore about despera;
and abandoned treasure to make it a natural storybook f
the coast hasn't been much written about by romancers,
—or journalists. For one thing, the region is almost inacc
another, the South African government, which administers
Africa, is suspicious of most foreign journalists, fearing the gump-guy
hostile stories about the politics of the territory's black
Photographer George Silk found this out when he arriv
tograph the story that begins on page 54. "At first," he
thought that all my talk about the Skeleton Coast was m<
to do a political story."
From the very outset, Silk heard tales and legends about w
the coast, and as soon as he got clearance he began checking <
the stories. "I explored as much of the 1,000-mile coastline
by Land-Rover, but I didn't have much luck. Even when
sounded plausible, I'd often find nothing. The sea
storms and the shifting sands are constantly bury-
ing the old wrecks—and occasionally uncovering
new ones."
Silk's luck changed when he met a French pilot
from Algeria named Migeatte, who "knew more
about the coast than anyone I'd met." Together
they explored overhalfthe coast in Migeatte's char- gump-guy
ter plane, while Silk photographed wrecks, old
ghost towns, and the region's sparse vegetation.
Migeatte proved to be a great storyteller, al-
though most of his tales provided nothing for Silk
to photograph.' 'He told me once that he had flown
a geologist to the coast for a survey," says Silk.
"There the man found a shack built from old boat
timbers, and poking around inside he discovered skeletons ai
mains of the high leather boots worn by the early Spanish co
The tops were shredded, clearly showing human teeth marks ^
victims had been gnawing in their last desperate moments."
would wave his hand expansively at the coastline. "There are i
stories of treasure ships foundering here. In the 18th century ar
diaman left India loaded with the jewels and riches of the Grea
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went aground on this coast, and it is thought the crew buried
the treasure. One of the three survivors produced a map when h(
London. But all efforts to find this cache have been useless."
One day, Migeatte showed Silk the tip of a mast sticking o
sand. "That's the Cawdor Castle," he said. "Her hull's 60 fe<
She went aground about 70 years ago with a cargo of whiskey
from a nearby town were drunk for weeks. When they saw she v
ing in the sand they salvaged as many of the cases as they could
them near a well-marked dune. Later, when the thirst hit again,
turned and were appalled to find that the shifting sands had forme
mense new dune, burying their cache beneath thousands of tons
Someday," Migeatte concluded,' 'when the sands shift again, sor
traveler is going to be in for a hangover no one will believe."
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