Pg... 24 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: The Chosen Three for the First Space Ride: New Astronaut Team, Varied Men with One Goal, Poise for a Violent Journey. By Loudon Wainwright. Photographed for LIFE by Ralph Morse
Pg... 34 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: Congo Strongman with His Belgian Backers Showing: a Belgian–Led Army Props Up Katanga's Tshombe
Pg... 42 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: A Look at the World's Week
Pg... 47 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: Jaunty Ride for Sir Winston: Churchill Returns to the Riviera for His Annual Winter Vacation
Pg... 50 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: Very Tall De Gaulle: France's President Stretches 180 Feet High in a Paris Painting
Pg... 41 EDITORIALS: Making the Tax Mess Worse
Pg... 41 EDITORIALS: Automations and Mr. Dooley
Pg... 68 PICTORIAL ESSAYS: The Civil War: Part V of LIFE'S Series. Gaiety and Dread on the Home Front. War's Grim Backwash Hits Two Hostile Capitals. By Margaret Leech
Pg... 99 PICTORIAL ESSAYS: Homework: as Families Endure It, Educators Debate It. A Big St. Louis Family Goes Through Familiar Chores. Photographed for LIFE by Robert W. Kelley
Pg... 108 ARTICLE: The Machines are Taking Over: Computers Outdo Man at His Work Now?and Soon May Outthink Him. By Warren R. Young
Pg... 54 FASHION: The Paris Rage: Spring Styles from a Crazy Age?the 1920s?Come Back with a Nostalgic Movie. Photographed for LIFE by Mark Shaw
Pg... 59 TRAVEL: Big Ship's Glowing Debut: the Pacific's Biggest Passenger Ship, S.S. Oriana, Makes Her Maiden Voyage
Pg... 90 TELEVISION AND MOVIES: A Double Bill by Bergman: On Screen and on TV. Ingrid Plays a Middle–Aged Woman
Pg... 94 MUSIC: An Opera of Outer Space: Electronic Brain Named Mima Sings Heroine's Tragic Role in Swedish Work
Pg... 125 PARTY: A Baron Puts on Caribbean Carnival in New York
Pg... 12 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Speaking of Pictures: a Triple–Decker Bachelor's Paradise for Jerry Lewis
Pg... 18 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Letters to the Editors
Pg... 128 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Miscellany: Little Baboon in the Afternoon