Heavyweight boxing champion Joe Frazier breaks into laughter as his body guard, Tom Payne, misses a tin can during some target practice at the Frazier home in a rural area near the coastal city of Beaufort, S.C. on April 6, 1971. Frazier missed more than he hit and said he hadn't held a gun in 10 years. (Photo by Lou Krasky/AP Photo)





Wondering why the government was so worried that two nations had decided to promise not to go to war with each other. The news of the proposal of a non-aggression pact between Russia and Germany came as a story out of a comic paper until people realized that it was true. A newsboy tempts a city worker with the last edition of paper, in London, August 22, 1939, with the promise of yet more story, whilst a young road sweeper seeks vicariously to solve his puzzlement. (Photo by AP Photo)





The rock band Jefferson Airplane pose in their Pacific Heights, San Francisco apartment, December 5, 1968. From left: Marty Balin, Grace Slick, Spencer Dryden, Paul Kantner, Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady. (Photo by AP Photo)





British airwoman and ice Hockey player Mona Friedlander, at Brooklands Flying Club, England, on December 30, 1938. (Photo by AP Photo)





Relaxing between work periods, Jack Weiderhorn, left, and Albert L. Best play a game resembling table tennis, except with wooden mallets and beach balls, in New York, December 14, 1946. Cleo Thrice looks on at center. (Photo by Robert Kradin/AP Photo)





Shabbily-dressed Isaac Grady Sanders, 13, leans against door of shack in Whitwell, Tenn., December 16, 1963 where his family will have a stark and bleak Christmas. His father is one of thousands of Former coal miners who were laid off several years ago. The lad, oldest of seven children, lives with his grandmother across the road from his parents' home. The rest of the family three girls and three boys and their parents live and sleep in a 12-by-12 room, furnished with two double beds, a couch and a stack of blankets. (Photo by AP Photo)





The body of a victim of the terrorist attack at Rome's Leonardo Da Vinci airport, December 27, 1985 lies on the floor of the international terminal as investigators stand nearby. In the left background is the bar where a grenade exploded. (Photo by Gianni Foggia/AP Photo)





Gunnar Kaasen poses with his original dog team which he drove through a blinding blizzard to Nome, Alaska to deliver an diphtheria serum to save the town from being wiped out by the disease in 1925. Kaasen's lead log Balto is shown in top row, second from left. Balto led the team through blizzard conditions so severe that Kaasen could not even see his lead dog. (Photo by AP Photo)





Former Olympic figure skater, Alain Calmet of France, is seen after lighting the Olympic Flame during the opening ceremony of the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, February 6, 1968. (Photo by AP Photo)





German chimney sweep Raihar Reuss, 20, in West Berlin, on February 16, 1968, a member of a craft that in Germany has traditionally been held to be a source of good luck. (Photo by AP Photo)





Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson, center, is flanked by security guards in his office as he poses with $100,000 reward money offered for clues to the deaths of 17 Atlanta children, February 21, 1981. (Photo by AP Photo)





Four school children watch a teacher giving them a lesson via television at home in Baltimore, Md., January 6, 1953. Students reported to chilly school buildings at 9 am only to be sent home with schedules of programs to watch. A strike of municipal workers has shut down more than half the public schools in the Balitmore area. Dont worry about the little guy on the left playing hookey, he's only two. (Photo by AP Photo)





One of the largest paddle steamers afloat in Britain is the H.M.S. Royal Eagle, former peacetime excursion boat which carried passengers on pleasure jaunts from Tower Bridge to Southend, Ramscate and Margate. Commissioned two years ago as a warship of the Royal Navy, the craft has been in action 52 times against enemy aircraft. The Eagle took part in the evacuation from Dunkirk where she was dive-bombed 48 times and brought home nearly 3,000 British troops. Members of the crew cleaning the paddle boxes of H.M.S. Royal Eagle in London on January 18, 1943. (Photo by AP Photo)





Charles H. Townes, Columbia University professor and Nobel Laureate, explains his invention the maser during a news conference in New York City, January 25, 1955. The maser, microwave amplification by stimulated emission of radiation, uses directly the energy radiated by molecules of ammonia gas. (Photo by AP Photo)





Joseph Gallo, known as “Crazy Joe Gallo”, is removed by police from a restaurant where Gallo fired 5 shots, killing a waitress, Mrs. Fern Burke, 41, in San Jose, Calif., March 17, 1955. Officers said Gallo fired 5 shots, three bullets striking the woman. (Photo by AP Photo)





A New York City Police officer stands beside the covered body of 4 1/2-year-old Conor Clapton, son of rock guitarist Eric Clapton and Italian TV star Lori del Santo, who fell from a 53rd-floor window to the roof of a four-story building Wednesday, March 21, 1991. The boy's mother and housekeeper were in the apartment at the time he fell out the open window. (Photo by Ellis Kaplan/AP Photo)





With the main water supply knocked out by the allied advance, the people of the captured German city of Magdeburg must make do with an old water pump, 18th April 1945. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)





Workmen hoist the U.S. Army's 63-foot Redstone missile into position for display at Grand Central Station in New York, July 7, 1957, as a salute to the International Geophysical Year and in celebration of the city's Summer Festival. (Photo by Hans von Nolde/AP Photo)





North Korean prisoners huddle under barbed wire as they are transported from one compound to another on Koje Island, June 17, 1952. They are surrounded by guards on either side of the road. Allied command moved 22,500 Communist Prisoners of War out of four large compounds without any opposition. The meekness of the prisoners left no doubt that Brig. Gen. Haydon L. Boatner had gained unchallenged control over 80,000 prisoners who only one week earlier ran their compounds unhindered and defied their captors. (Photo by AP Photo)





Olympic broad jump champion Jesse Owens shows his old form for benefit of the photographer at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City where he was honored on October 12, 1954, with other athletes at banquet for the all-time U.S. Olympic Games track and field team. In 1936 at Berlin, Germany, Jesse set records in winning the Olympic 100 and 200-meter runs and the broad jump. Banquet opened National Olympic Day drive to obtain public backing for U.S. team participation in the 1955 Pan American and 1956 Olympic games. (Photo mby mMarty Lederhandler/AP Photo)