Pg… 4 Editorials: The Lethargic 88th vs. L.B.J.

Pg… 4 Editorials: Freedom Wins in Venezuela

Pg… 9 LIFE Guide: Splashy Premieres Start a Harvest of Fine Movies; Museum Gift Shops, and a Big Swimming Meet

Pg… 19 Germs' Busy Social Life: A Psychologist Develops a Fascinating Theory About Microbes and American Workers. By Thomas J. Fleming

Pg… 23 Letters to the Editors

Pg… 26 Johnson on the Job: With Sturdy Roots in the Earth and the Past, with a Handsome and Versatile Family, and with Plenty of Drive, the New President Gathers His Forces for the Big Tasks. Text by John L. Steele

Pg… 36 Volcano at Sea: Underwater Eruptions Throw Up a New Chunk of Offshore Icelandic Territory

Pg… 36B Items in the News: A Singing, Strumming Nun Makes a Hit Recording. Princess Margaret Meets Those Red–Hot Rock 'n' Rollers, the Beatles. Sir Winston Churchill is 89

Pg… 41 Trains without Featherbedding: A Florida Railroad Proves It Can Get Along Without Make–Work Jobs

Pg… 42 Election Terrorism in Venezuela: Communists Armed by Cuba Fail to Intimidate Voters as Venezuela Chooses a Pro–U.S. President

Pg… 49 New Anti–Sub Rocket: Navy's Supersonic Torpedo Travels by Air

Pg… 59 Comeback for the Oryx: A Vanishing Arabian Animals Gets a New Chance in Arizona

Pg… 64 The Cathedral of Toledo: A Great Spanish Church, Built at a Crossroads of History, is Resplendent with Art. Photographed by Dmitri Kessel

Pg… 77 The Diligenti Quints: The Argentine Five have Grown Up Into Happy, Successful Lives. And Their Father has Reason to be Proud. By Miguel Acoca

Pg… 87A Oppenheimer and Teller: The Tangled Drama and Private Hells of Two Famous Scientists, Whose Feud has Been Eased by a Fermi Award, is Unfolded in an Article by Robert Coughlan

Pg… 112 Round–Up for George Abbott: LIFE and Broadway's Best Go to the 50th Anniversary of a Great Showman?Who is Too Busy to Moon Over Good Old Days. By Tom Prideaux

Pg… 120 Miscellany: A Seal of Approval