Pg… 20 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: Soviet Traveler Returns from Out of This World: the Story of Yuri Gagarin and His Remarkable Achievement. How the News Hit Washington. By Hugh Sidey
Pg… 36 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: A Look at the World's Week
Pg… 43 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: "A Stranger to the Human Race": at the Eichmann Trial a Noted American Jew Foresees Risks for Israel in Tragic Revelations. By Harry Golden
Pg… 96 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: Spire's Strange Shadow Looms Ominously Over Mariefred, Sweden
Pg… 35 EDITORIALS: Some Cosmonautical Questions
Pg… 35 EDITORIALS: Next Trouble Spot: West Irian
Pg… 48 PICTORIAL ESSAYS: Wild but Sane Ideas for Space Flight: LIFE Presents Some Imaginative New Concepts. Paintings for LIFE by Robert McCall
Pg… 78 PICTORIAL ESSAYS: Beauty Endangered but Still Salvageable: Primeval Wilderness a Heritage to Preserve. Photographed for LIFE by Dmitri Kessel
Pg… 118 ARTICLE: Black Magic: Vital Force in Africa's New Nations. Today's Presidents and Kings Still Pay Homage to the Ancestral Rituals of Witchcraft and Sorcery. By Robert Coughlan, LIFE Staff Writer
Pg… 52D MOVIES: New Fame for Raisin: a Broadway Success Moves to Hollywood with Sidney Poitler
Pg… 57 SCIENCE: A Surveyor of the Moon is Expected to Transmit Direct Information by 1963
Pg… 70 SCIENCE: A Kind Way for Mouth X Ray is Developed
Pg… 61 BOOKS: Roman Holiday for a Bashful Bear Named Winnie: Latin Version of Children's Classic is the Surprise Bestseller of 1961. By David E. Scherman
Pg… 75 FASHION: Big Stretch for High Style: Elastic Fabric Combines Freedom and Fit
Pg… 88A CLOSE–UP: Eager Exponent of Zen: Ex–Anglican Priest Spreads an Eastern Philosophy in the U.S.
Pg… 101 SPORTS: The Good Lord and Gary Player: the Masters Champ's Curious Victory
Pg… 109 ENTERTAINMENT: The Invincible Red: Tormented Skeleton is Top U.S. Clown. Photographed for LIFE by Grey Villet
Pg… 135 PARTY: Outer Space After School: Teen–Age Astronauts Take a 24–Hour "Flight"
Pg… 8 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Speaking of Pictures: Camel Bazaar in India
Pg… 16 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Letters to the Editors
Pg… 138 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Miscellany: Love Finds a Loophole
