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5 days ago · The hotel, as LIFE’s story details, welcomed the Shah and his wife by rolling out a 40-foot red carpet. The hotel didn’t have a presidential suite but did its best to recreate one by painting four …

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It was a bold notion to name a magazine LIFE. The word life, after all, encompasses everything. The major events that define generations, the fleeting moments that comprise the everyday, the feelings …

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LIFE was very much aware of this change as it was happening, and worried that it was bad for the country. The magazine fretted in 1948 that the decline of the family farm might also signal the decline …

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The following is adapted from the introduction to LIFE’s newcspecial issue 100 Photographs: The Most Important Pictures of All Time and the Stories Behind Them, available at newsstands and online: …