Pg… 4 Editorials: The Latin Sky is Brighter

Pg… 4 Editorials: How to Make Any City Ugly

Pg… 9 LIFE Guide: Prime Time and Trails for Hikers; Musicals on the Road and Old Contraptions

Pg… 11 High I.Q. Society: A Fraternity Admits Only Those in the Genius Brackets. Special Report by Shana Alexander

Pg… 19 Letters to the Editors

Pg… 20 Pork Barrel Swells: The U.S. Spends Increasing Billions on Projects Done First and Foremost for Political Gain?and that We Could Really Do Without. By Keith Wheeler, Henry Suydam, Norman Ritter, Bill Wise and Howard Sochurek

Pg… 28 Kennedy Baby in Hospital: Before the Shades Come Down, Doctors are Seen Treating Patrick Bouvier Kennedy, Rushed to Boston When Only Hours Old

Pg… 31 The 'Dragon Lady' Speaks: Vietnam's Strongwoman Breathes Fire at Buddhists and the U.S.

Pg… 32 Jolly Treaty Party: Khrushchev and the American Nuclear Test–Ban Team Celebrate with Champagne

Pg… 34 Chinese Hail a Deadlock: To Welcome Home Negotiators Who Reached Impasse in Moscow, China's Top Command Poses for Rare Group Pictures

Pg… 39 Military Prison Shocker: The Brig is a Play in a New Form by a Man Who Says He had Plenty to Yell About

Pg… 46 Dazzling Campus Styles: For the Fall It's Picasso and Vivid Vinyls and Fake Furs Make Into Free–Form Finery

Pg… 65 Jonathan Miller's World: A Star of Beyond the Fringe, a Medic Turned Clown, Airs His Acid Views

Pg… 72 How It Feels To Be Black: In a Novel Based on His Real–Life Story and in His Own Photographs, Gordon Parks Tells of the Negro's Long Search for Pride

Pg… 89 Liz Taylor Shows Off London: LIFE Goes on a Tour with a Home–Town Girl Who Becomes a Guide for TV?and $500,000

Pg… 92 Miscellany: Pickaback Peekaboo