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Pg… 26 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: What Happened the Night the Dam Burst: Survivors Tell of a Tragedy on the French Riviera. Text by David Snell and Gabrielle Smith
Pg… 32 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: A New Round in the TV Row: Investigators Will Ask if a Slavish Dependence on Ratings Makes So Many Programs Mediocre
Pg… 42 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: Ike's Rainy Roman Holiday: the President's Trip to Europe and Asia has an Upbeat Beginning in a Downpour
Pg… 44 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: Mickey Cohen, His Dog and a Blonde: the Hoodlum Claims to be Just Innocent Bystander at a Murder in Los Angeles
Pg… 55 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: Return of the Wanderer from an Idyl: After taking His Kids on a Schooner to the South Seas, Sterling Hayden Faces a Custody Battle Back in Hollywood
Pg… 63 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: A Look at the World's Week
Pg… 41 EDITORIAL: A Twelfth Month Look Around
Pg… 72 PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAYS: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Part II: He was an Incorrigible Civic Booster and Helped Make Philadelphia the Leading Colonial City. Photographed for LIFE by Andreas Feininger
Pg… 101 PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAYS: The Farm Problem, Conclusion. Too Many Farmers Crowd the Field but Solutions are Posed by Experts, Including Some Presidential Hopefuls
Pg… 112 ARTICLES: The Astronauts Get Their Prodigious Chariot: the Spacemen's Cramped Capsule Almost Thinks for Itself. By Don Schanche, LIFE Staff Correspondent
Pg… 49 ANIMALS: Gentle Bristling Little Hedgehogs
Pg… 60 FASHION: Lavish Lounging Pants are the Latest Mode for Dressing Up
Pg… 68 MOVIES: A Job as Star for Ingemar
Pg… 93 SPORTS: A Rough Trio of Linebackers with Feminine Nicknames Lead the Giants
Pg… 133 PARTY: Somerset Maugham Visits Japan and Goes on a Giddy Geisha Gambol
Pg… 14 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Letters to the Editors
Pg… 21 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Speaking of Pictures: Fiery Fury in the Sky
Pg… 136 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Miscellany: a Pigeon's Pretty Pass, Alas
