A BITTER FEUD great surgeons at war the human heart Dr. Denton Cooley Dr. Michael DeBakey The $29.95 Colorpack 1 1: introducing a new feature. "You can get one now." This Polaroid Land camera came out last Spring. By Christmas we'd made millions of them and some stores were still turning people away. ThisSpring we're ready. Same price. Same features. No line to stand in. Color pictures in a minute. $29,951 Electric eye and electronic shutter for automatic exposures Brilliant 3-element lens.Built- in flash for 4 -shot flashcubes. snt, (And our new feature nu for 1970: you can get one.) Be*/* 1 SuEscsled Lilt Pr.ct POLAROID® ipyrighted material " " 7 The &t time ofdayfthafs any time you overeat. Sugar's instant energy can slip youpast 'I think ofsugar as extra willpower. The "fat time of day" is when you're really hungry and ready to eat, and eat, and eat. The message is coming from your turned-up appestat*. You can turn it down shortly before mealtime by snacking on something sweet. The sugar in a soft drink, a couple of cookies, or a candy bar turns into energy in minutes. By cutting your appetite and increasing your energy, sugar helps slip you past the "fat time of day" the sweetest way possible. Never enough time? Sugar. only 18 caloriesper teaspoon, Handy new recipe booklet, "Desserts by the Clock," fits fixing time to it's all energy. and yout time. Send \0i for postage and handling. *"A mitral center in the hypothalamus Sugar Information believed to regulate appetite. — Webster's Third New International Dictionary. Dept. A, P.O. Box 2664, Grand Central Station, New York, N. V. 1001 Copy What can one man do, my friend What can one man do To fight pollution in the air That's closing in from everywhere? There is one thing you can do, my friend. You can share in the new sense of urgency Meanwhile we're trying just as hard as we in our country as Americans everywhere know how to solve the basic problem. For tackle the pollution problem. And that's instance, at all our facilities we're working good. One company or one man cannot do to fix whatever pollution problems we find. everything. But we can all do something. We're working with car manufacturers, In 25 states of the East and South our too. Some day soon they expect to produce Amoco, Super-Premium gasoline has no cars that won't pollute the air. Such cars lead in it. No lead. To pollute the air. Or will require a lead free gasoline. And we're your engine, n And all our gasolines every- ready whenever they are. That's the where are made with a new engine cleansing real answer to the problem. Cars that don't ingredient called Amotone.* It cleans where foul the air. And gasolines that don't either. dirt hurts most. These things mean a Some day all gasolines will probably be clean engine. And a clean engine burns lead free. But right now there is only one. cleaner. So the air is a little cleaner. Lead-Free Amoco Super-Premium. 6 1970, The American Oil Company, Chicago, III. •Trademark a VOL. 68 NO. 13 APRIL 10 1970 CONTENTS EDITORS' NOTE INVESTIGATIVE REPORT 30 Louisiana's Unshaken Mobster Boss The governor promised a cleanup, but Mafia chieftain A welcome victory for Carlos Marcello still runs things his way in a state where he has plenty of friends in high places. By David Chandler and Life's investigative reporting team the cause of beauty What Do You Do with $900,000,000? 38 Good news about almost anything is rather a rarity oil gives it that Alaska's bonanza a problem every state these days. Good news about our environment is scarce- should have, by Dale Wittner ly heard at all. For more than a decade Life has been recording the A Victory for Beauty 48 destruction of wilderness and wildlife. It has been a dis- With some human help, the mighty trumpeter swan mal tale of despoiled lands, polluted rivers, spreading soars back from the edge of extinction. Photographed smog and endangered species. In the past year this has Vernon Merritt III by become a nationwide cause, a matter ofconcern to more and more citizens. Bad news about our environment is The Good Witch of the West 59 now plentiful, and the feeling grows that no week will Los Angeles' official sorceress casts only kindly spells pass without the threat of some new eco- logical disaster. Most depressing of all, The Doctors' Bitter Feud 62B many people feel that little can be done Two great heart surgeons work almost side by side in about it. Houston —but not on speaking terms. The Texas Tornado It is therefore a special pleasure to pre- vs. Dr. Wonderful, by Thomas Thompson sent the story beginning on page 48, Pho- tographer Vernon Merritt's "A Victory Weird Water Toys 76 for Beauty." His pictures of the magnif- Amsterdam offers inflatable bags, pillows and snakes icent trumpeter swan are a triumph of that you can walk on —or in photography, but even more, they are a triumph of conservation. The species was DEPARTMENTS once reduced to a total of 69 birds, and The Presidency Making points with civility. By 4 it seemed inevitable that these last few Hugh Sidey would vanish altogether. But almost 60 TRUMPETER SWANS years of careful protection have brought GALLERY Ray K. Metzker's photocomposition 8 the trumpeters back in such numbers (more than 5.000 Reviews 12-18 today) that they are no longer considered an endan- Richard Schickel writes about dirty gered species. language in the movies The swans survived because a number of people in Robert Marasco's Child's Play, reviewed government agencies and conservation groups believed by Tom Prideaux that something could be done. There were also some pri- Letters to the Editors 26A vate citizens, the members of the Edwards family in Column Ten long minutes in Punchbowl. 280 British Columbia, who made a special personal con- By Joan Didion tribution, described by Dolly Connelly on page 56. The Special Report The Navy versus Culcbra. 47 contribution had nothing to do with money—the Ed- By Greg Walter wardses never had any to speak of—but it is one that all admirers of wildlife can respect and perhaps envy. Parting Shots The distinguished gentlemen 81 I seen a trumpeter swan in the wild, or from yesterday have never heard the strange call that is responsible for its name. Most Life readers will probably never have that op- C1970 TIME INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. REPRODUCTION IN WHOLE OR PART WITHOUT WRITTEN PERMISSION IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED portunity, either, since the birds live in wilderness ter- ritory and are still not a common sight even today. But COVER RALPH MORSE J-VERNON MERRITT III 4 clrtoon by LURIEI, J courtesy PHOTOGRAPHERS GAL- the great white wingspread is there in Merritt's pic- LERY, photo by RAY K. METZKER 12 drawing; by JOHN MARTINEZ M MARTHA SW0PE 260 ROBERT GOODMAN 30, 31 MATT HERRON 32, 33 t. ARTHUR SHAY (5); bot. II. LYNN PELHAM (rom RAPHO-GUIL- tures, startling flash of beauty across the sky to LUMETTE 34 ft. ARTHUR SHAY 35-U. P.I. IS, 17-ARTHUR SHAY e«c t. rt. t» through 42 BOB PETERSON a say 47- LYNN PELHAM Irom RAPHO-GUILLUMETTE 59 MICHAEL R0UGIER 60. 61 MICHAEL R0UGIER, HEINZ KLUETMEIER MEL Fl NKELSTEIN loi thl NY DAILY NEWS-MICHAEL R0UGIER 62B through 74- RALPH that something can, indeed, be done. MORSE 76, 77-11. PIETER B0ERSMA(2); rt. THE0 BOTSCHUIVERTt, 7S-PIETER BOERSMAh-U.P.I.aB - A. P. exc. bot con. U P I SERVICE PHOTOGRAPHY S] U P I A.P.-BOB BLACK lor the CHICAGO SUN- TIMES. WILLIAM L. LAFORCE lor THE SUNPAPERS, BALTIMORE. JIM C0VINGT0N-A.P. (2). JOHN BEN- NETT for the WACO NEWS TRIBUNE (4 cartoon by LURIE April 10. 1970 Volume 68. Number 13 LIFE it pnbkabad weekly ascent two nsett yearly comblrHns two issues in one by Time Inc., 541 N. Fairbanks Cow! Chicago. IINnoti 60611. principal omee fiocketelksr Center. New York, NY. lOOIO: Jamos R. Shepiey, President; Richard B McKoosifli Ralph Graves Tieeiurer; John F. Harvey. Secretary. Second-clau poelaia paid at Chicste. III., and at additional mailing offices Aultioriied ai second-class man by trie Post Office Department at Ottawa. Canada and for payment ot peltate in cash. H. 9, Managing Editor lljjn a year and Canadian subscriptions 112.00 a year. This One J8K3-G70-WLWP The Presidency/by Hugh Sidey times the fellow says it isn't, and the President Making points with civility sets a new hour. More than one visitor in the offices of the big three — Kissinger, Ehrlichman and Haldeman —has been startled to hear At about this stage in a modern Presidency, roguishness somewhere, a juicy story of vent- one of them pick up the phone and say, "I'm thanks to the relentless TV eye and the inex- ed outrage that would give the President a in a meeting right now, Mr. President. I'll be haustible supply of newsprint, the American more human dimension. The fact is that the at- down just as soon as I finish." The total re- people begin to get a real sense of the man in mosphere around the Oval Office is one of un- sponse Lyndon Johnson demanded is hard for the White House. relieved thoughtfulness and gentility.