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Pg… 21 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: With the Closing of a New Missouri River Dam, the U.S. Finally Masters the Big Muddy
Pg… 28 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: Democrats at Governors' Convention in Chicago Ponder Stevenson's 1956 Presidential Candidacy
Pg… 30 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: Hesitant Connie Opens the Storm Season
Pg… 35 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: A Look at the World's Week
Pg… 39 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: Atom Experts' Shopping Spree: The Geneva Conference Puts Nuclear Wares of World on Display
Pg… 41 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: A Huge Sphere of Colored Lights Forecasts Houston's Weather
Pg… 32 EDITORIALS: A Fair Exchange Abroad
Pg… 32 EDITORIALS: A Fair Climate at Home
Pg… 81 PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY: Art Conquers Attica: A Tiny Kansas Farm Town Grows Its Own Crop of Painters. Photographed for LIFE by Grey Villet
Pg… 90 ARTICLE: Lifting Up a Beaten People: Part II of "MacArthur's Rendezvous With History," by Major General Courtney Whitney, Recounts the Little–Known Facts Behind the Historic Rebuilding of a Conquered Japan
Pg… 42 MOVIES: Sophia Loren of Italy, Europe's No. 1 Cover Girl, Plays In Her Biggest Film Yet
Pg… 51 SPORTS: Oklahoma Farm Girl Outpitches and Outhits Her Eight Boy Teammates
Pg… 57 ANIMALS: Rusty the Elephant in London Zoo Gets a Three–Hour Primping for Her Daily Job of Carrying Kids
Pg… 60 FASHION: A Stylish Start for Kindergarten: Designers have Scaled Down College Styles for Children's Back–To–School Clothes. Photographed in Color for LIFE by Nina Leen
Pg… 66 THEATER: Cripple Creek, Colo. Audiences Wear Mustaches and Hiss the Villain of Oldtime Melodrama "Flying Scud"
Pg… 73 NATURE: An Adopted Mother Goose: Scientist in Germany Plays Foster Parent to Goslings to Study Their Behavior
Pg… 109 PARTY: The Picnic of the Year: Premier Bulganin and the Soviet High Command Throw a Whopping Country Picnic for Foreign Diplomats
Pg… 7 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Letters to the Editors
Pg… 14 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Speaking of Pictures: Wounded Lion Downs a Hunter
Pg… 48 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Sequel: "Christ of the Depths" Statue, Sunk a Year Ago Off Italy, Gets an Underwater Scrubbing by Swimmers
Pg… 112 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Miscellany: Going Which Way?