ISSUE DATE: JULY 7, 1972; VOL. 73, NO. 1

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COVER: GEORGE MCGOVERN talks. An outspoken self-portrait.

THE BEAT OF LIFE: Chess champion Boris Spassky waits for Bobby Fischer. Motorized cavalry. Martha Mitchell on the phone again. Floods in the U.S.

'I HAVE EARNED THE NOMINATION': George McGovern talks intimately about himself in an interview with Richard Meryman. Photographed by Stanley Tretick.

THE PANDAS GO PUBLIC: Ling-Ling and Hsing-Hsing are Washington's most appealing summer attraction.

GOOD OLD BOY JUSTICE: A West Virginia justice of the peace dispenses common sense in a "little man's court." By Donald Jackson.

GOING BACK TO A SIMPLER AMERICA: Photographer Leon Kuzmanoff, grand prize winner in LIFE's 1970 Photo Contest, goes looking for a less frantic America of the past and finds it's all still there.

PARTING SHOTS: A Surprising travel guide to Boston, the No. 1 city of the young.

DEPARTMENTS:
Editorials: The McGovern dynamic. Bombing out of season.
Divorce politician style. Baseball justice.
REVIEWS:
A stunning book of art, The Hudson River and Its Painters, is a force for preservation. By Robert Boyle.
Cyclops discusses what TV does to real politicians, and film critic Richard Schickel casts his vote on a fictional one, The Candidate.
35 YEARS AGO IN 'LIFE' Robert Capa's classic photograph of a militiaman's death in the Spanish Civil War.
CONSUMER WATCH Pencils, paint and pottery can give you lead poisoning.
LETTERS TO THE EDITORS.
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