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Pg… 4 Editorials: Good News in Canada
Pg… 4 Editorials: Big New in Russia
Pg… 10 The Unsure Sugar–Offer: Special Report by Bob Buyer on His Do–It–Yourself Go at Making Maple Syrup
Pg… 23 LIFE Guide: Big Doings in U.S. Public Libraries. What's on View in the Legitimate Theater; a Hike and a River Race
Pg… 29 Letters to the Editors
Pg… 30 A Poet vs Stalin: Russia's Evtushenko Cries Out in Verse and in a Revealing Personal Memoir, but the Ghost of the Dead Tyrant Silences Him as the Menace of Stalin–Style Purges Grows
Pg… 38 Death of a Submarine: Beneath the Atlantic Waves East of Boston the Nuclear Submarine Thresher Sends a Final Message, "We are Approaching Test Depth." Hours Later the 129 Officers and Men Aboard are Given Up for Lost. Other Submarine Veterans Speculate on What Might Have Happened, and an Artist Uses Their Guidance to Portray a Final Moment in the Deep.
Pg… 49 All Eyes on La Toria: Dazzling Young Aerialist?Daughter of Unus the Great?Makes Her Sensational Debut as a Circus Headliner
Pg… 53 The Used–To–Be Ustinov: Now in the Flower of Middle Age, the Satirist–Actor–Director Recalls that at the age of 6 He was an Automobile
Pg… 63 Twin–Rideen Classroom: Oh, the Confusion of Trying to Teach Seven Sets of Little Look–Alikes!
Pg… 66C U.S. Fashion Bargains: European Models Try Them?and Love Them
Pg… 72 At Last, Cleopatra!: The Longest, Costliest and Most Jinxed Film is Finally Finished, and the Man Who Knows Tells of the On–Screen and Off–Screen Epic that Does Beat All
Pg… 85 Vaccine for Measles: Now You Can be Immunized Against an Underrated Killer
Pg… 88 Mary Hemingway in Africa: The Novelist's Widow Goes for Big Game and Evokes Poignant Memories of the Land She and "Papa" Loves. By Mary Hemingway
Pg… 101 The World of Orchids: Color Pictures of Exotic Plants that Bloom in an Almost Infinite Variety of Shapes and Hues. Photographed for LIFE by Alfred Eisenstaedt. Mystery Writer Rex Stout Tells Why Nero Wolfe Like Them
Pg… 110 Miscellany: Dandy Duck's Dashing Hairdo
