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Pg… 1 Cover: Laying a Yugoslav girl whose brief love for a German soldier brands her a collaborator, Italian star Silvana Mangano does a bathing scene
Pg… 32 The Week’s Events: In a land torn by fury, South African blacks bury their martyrs as the crisis grows. For the Afrikaners, 300 years of build–up to bitter dilemma. By Gene Farmer
Pg… 42 With historic photographs from space, Tiros begins a new world of weather
Pg… 49 A look at the World’s Week
Pg… 57 Swank Yank in Bulgaria reopens the U.S. legation after 10 years
Pg… 81 Rocky’s fight on fallout: New York governor plugs his plan for shelters
Pg… 44 Editorials: The bridge to Sharpeville
Pg… 44 Editorials: The Cork bobs back
Pg… 86 Pictorial Essays: Folklore of America, Part IV: legendary feats of the pioneers are glorified in the tall tales they told. Paintings for LIFE by James Lewicki
Pg… 121 Pictorial Essays: The Niagara dig, biggest ever in the U.S.: canyons are carved out of stone for a $750 million hydroelectric project. Photographed for LIFE by Fritz Goro
Pg… 58 Articles: A wild three–way tumble through simulated space helps teach mastery of space controls. Part III of LIFE’s series on the Astronauts’ training. By Captain Virgil Grissom
Pg… 113 Articles: Plot, counterplot on flyways to Cuba: Anti–=Castro pilot says a double–deal downed right plane but the wrong men. By Richard Billings
Pg… 140 Articles: Prodigious intellect in solitary: impenitent killer Robert Stroud, who is famed for his treatise on birds, has a new hope for freedom. By Paul O’Neil, LIFE staff writer
Pg… 70 Music: A cargo of kids for the art: young opera cast in Virginia enacts and animals that Noah saved
Pg… 105 Fashions: Bikinis move into bedrooms: skimpy beach style takes over in sleepwear
Pg… 129 Sports: Four men on a horse: Baltimore hackies who bought a filly gain a windfall when she wins at 70– 1
Pg… 135 Business: $75,000 investment in a voice: record company puts on costly campaign to make a teen–age idol our of Rod Lauren
Pg… 157 Party: Merry time for mayhem masters: famous mystery writers come for cocktails all decked out for murder
Pg… 18 Other Departments: Speaking of Pictures: strange changes in old London
Pg… 160 Other Departments: Miscellany: walking on the railroad