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Pg… 16 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: In a Quest for Peace, Our President's Triumphant Pilgrimage. Photographed for LIFE by Paul Schutzer, Wayne Miller, John Dominis and Larry Burrows
Pg… 28 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: A Look at the World's Week
Pg… 35 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: Two Scrappy 75–Year–Old Democrats, Harry Truman and Eleanor Roosevelt, Argue Publicly About "Hot–House Liberals" at Her Birthday Party
Pg… 38 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: London Alit with Luxury: Prosperity Brings Christmas Opulence to Regent Street
Pg… 30 EDITORIALS: Ike's Trip is High Politics
Pg… 30 EDITORIALS: Catholics and U.S. Democracy
Pg… 42 PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAYS: Resplendent Works in an Age of Burning Faith: Early Christians Enriched the Churches of Ravenna with Mosaic Masterworks. Photographed, in Color, for LIFE by Dmitri Kessel
Pg… 67 PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAYS: Target: Venus?there May be Life there Because Balloon–Borne Scientists Discover Water Vapor
Pg… 78 ARTICLE: Should a Catholic be President: It Depends on His Attitude Toward the "Official" View, Says Protestant Bishop. By The Right Reverend James A. Pike
Pg… 59 MOVIES: Wonders Down at the Earth's Core are Plumbed for Fun and Fantasy
Pg… 61 THEATER: Stars Go on the Road?Katharine Cornell with Shaw and Bette Davis with Sandburg
Pg… 74 BOOKS: A Best–Seller's Folksy Medicine: Country Doctor's Book Prescribes Honey and Vinegar and Provokes a Controversy
Pg… 86 PARTY: Christmas Coming–Out for Shut–Ins: Rhode Island Invalids have a Heart–Warming Holiday Celebration
Pg… 8 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Speaking of Pictures: Tiny Fleet in Mass Flight
Pg… 10 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Letters to the Editors
Pg… 92 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Miscellany: Two–Faced Flamingo