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Pg… 4 Editorial: Johnson Means Business in Vietnam
Pg… 6 LIFE Reviews: Book: Peter De Vries’s Let Me Count the Ways, Reviewed by Richard P. Brickner
Pg… 6 LIFE Reviews: Movie: Ship of Fools, Reviewed by Richard Schickel
Pg… 13 Letters to the Editors
Pg… 14 The View from Here: Our Encounter with Mars. By Loudon Wainwright
Pg… 16 Long Guns Flash on the China Sea: U.S. Seapower Strikes at the Enemy in Vietnam. Photographed by Bill Ray
Pg… 26 Items in the News
Pg… 26B Russia’s Lethal Surface–to–Air Missile: Sophisticated Antiaircraft Weapon is a New Factor in the Vietnam War. Startling Pictures of a Deadly Accurate Test–Firing in the U.S.S.R.
Pg… 26D White House Council of War: How President Johnson and His Advisers Arrived at Their Decisions on Vietnam. By Richard B. Stolley
Pg… 29 Big Row Over Texas Gulf Sulphur: An SEC Suit Raises Questions of Investment Ethics. By Chris Welles
Pg… 39 Chip Off the Old Hemingway: Close–Up of the Novelist’s Son Patrick in Africa
Pg… 46 A Lovely Island Called Dominica: The Unspoiled Beauty of a Caribbean Land that Few Men have Ever Seen. Photographed by John Dominis
Pg… 62A The Terrain of Mars: Spectacular Mariner IV Pictures Show Surface Features in Detail
Pg… 62D Spain’s Great Beatnik Bullfighter: The Triumph of El Cordob?s in the Ring?and the Carefree Life He Leads When He’s Not Facing the Bulls. Photographed by Loomis Dean
Pg… 71 Brotherly Boom in Burglaries: A One–Family Crime Wave in Chicago. By Keith Wheeler
Pg… 81 Teen–Age Fashions for Fall: High School Girls and a Computer Team Up to Predict Style Trends
Pg… 88 Miscellany: The Monster of Bogey Lake