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Pg… 4 Editorials: Unblock that Merger Track!
Pg… 4 Editorials: Two New Ways to Curb Juvenile Delinquency
Pg… 10 LIFE Guide: A Summerful of Overseas Music Festivals, Plus Some Sights in the U.S. and Some Books
Pg… 15 The Grandeur Man: A Parable About a Big Neighbor Named Charlie. Special Report by David Snell
Pg… 21 Letters to the Editors
Pg… 22 Liquor Scandal in Rocky's State: In 16 Pages of Pull–No–Punches Pictures and Text, a Team of LIFE Reporters Exposes the Shocking Corruption in the New York State Liquor Authority
Pg… 32 Volcano's Awesome Cough: Photograph Taken Close to the Crater Catches Costa Rica's Mt. Irazu at the Moment of an Eruption
Pg… 34 American Bride in Sikkim: Hope Cooke of Manhattan Weds the Crown Prince of a Himalayan Kingdom and Becomes His Maharaj Kumari
Pg… 36 Ordeal in the Yukon: A Brooklyn Girl and a Mexican Pilot Survive for 47 Days in a Winter–Raked Wilderness
Pg… 41 Death of a Champion: Boxer Davey Moore Loses His World's Title, and then His Life
Pg… 47 Ear–Splitting Zoo Act: New York's Bronx Zoo Acquires Some Acrobatic Gibbons with Their Own Built–In Loudspeakers
Pg… 55 The Garbo Garb: Styles Once Worn by the Great Swedish Star Burst Into Vogue?and with Them, a Model Who is Gorgeously Garboesque
Pg… 78 Greece V: Wars of Destiny: In This Part of LIFE'S Series, Two Great Historians Help Tell of the Spartan Stand at Thermopylae and the Glorious Defeat of Xerxes at Salamis?and Go on to Narrate the Fratricidal Struggle Which Sent Greece Into Its Decline. Paintings for LIFE by Stanley Meltzoff
Pg… 113 A Victory for Edie: Ernie Kovacs' Widow Overcomes Despair and Bankruptcy?and Finds, in Herself, Talents Long Covered Up. By Peter Bunzel
Pg… 119 Barnyard How–to–Do–It: A Delightful Children's Book Gives Step–By–Step Lesson in the Way to Lay an Egg
Pg… 129 Great Steel Sculptor: David Smith Creates Metal Works of Art that Make Him Famous?and Fill the Fields Around His Home
Pg… 134 Miscellany: She's Got Me Doing It