ISSUE DATE: MAY 5, 1972; VOL. 72, NO. 17, 5/5/72

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COVER STORY: THE LITTLEST OLYMPIAN: Tiny gymnast Cathy Rigby is reaching for a gold medal at Munich. Photographed by John Dominis. "People expect a lot from me. So do I" [NICE feature story, with many photographs!]

THE MAN WHO SWINDLED AKRON: Lawyer Don Lowers invited his friends to get rich quick. It cost them $11 million. By Dale Wittner.

WHOSE CHILDREN ARE MIKE AND TAMMY?: The search to identify two youngsters abandoned in Long Beach, Calif.

HUBERT HUMPHREY STILL WANTS IT ALL: Buoyant as ever, H.H.H. is running hard for everybody's vote. By Brock Brower. Photographed by John Olson.

A DRUG TRAGEDY: The nightmare story of a father who loved his son but hated what his son became. By Thomas Thompson.

CRAZE FOR QUILTS: An old art comes back in all its brilliance.

PARTING SHOTS: A new Kennedy in politics, and she's backing McGovern, by Martha Fay. Poet Auden joins the artistic emigration, by Martha Duffy. Frasier, the prideful sex simba.

DEPARTMENTS:
THE BEAT OF LIFE:
Rudolf Bing's heady farewell to the Met. Student confronts student at Columbia. Instant demolition in a St. Louis slum.
EDITORIALS: Disturbing rhetoric. Russia's silent majority. Democratic hurdles. Godfather morality.
THE PRESIDENCY: The advance man strikes again. By Hugh Sidey REVIEWS:
Cyclops on a TV show about radio -- the comics of the '40s.
Richard Schickel reviews Tokyo Story, a fine Japanese film about the generation gap.
William McPherson on Michael Crichton's latest thriller, The Terminal Man.
28 YEARS AGO IN 'LIFE'.
LETTERS TO THE EDITORS.
PARTING SHOTS: A new Kennedy in politics, and she's backing McGovern, by Martha Fay. Poet Auden joins the artistic emigration, by Martha Duffy. Frasier, the prideful sex simba.
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