Description
Original LIFE Magazine — December 23 1957
This is an authentic original issue of LIFE Magazine published December 23 1957 — a real piece of American history, carefully preserved and ready to give, collect, or display.
Cover Subject: American information officer meeting with Buddhist monks in Laos
Inside This Issue: Features LIFE’s special two-in-one holiday issue, “America’s World Abroad,” examining the work of U.S. ambassadors and information officers around the world, including American diplomacy in Laos, along with international affairs, Cold War policy, photography, culture, and original 1957 advertising.
Completeness: Complete original issue, including the original pages, photographs, stories, and advertisements. Not a reproduction or modern reprint.
Perfect For: U.S. diplomatic history collectors, Cold War readers, Laos and Southeast Asia history enthusiasts, international-relations researchers, LIFE Magazine collectors, and anyone looking for a meaningful birthday, Christmas, or anniversary gift from 1957.
Original LIFE Magazines are authentic issues published between 1936 and 2000.
Pg… 10 President and Other Leaders Go to NATO Meeting
Pg… 12 Secretary Dulles Writes Special Articles for “LIFE”
Pg… 18 Editorial: Our New and Vaster Frontier
Pg… 20 Map: The Nation’s Worldwide Commitments
Pg… 22 U.S. Businessman on the Go in Europe
Pg… 26 Dam Builders Creating Power for Pakistan
Pg… 28 Getting the News Out of Moscow
Pg… 30 Hunt for South American Oil?10 Pages in Color
Pg… 78 $37 Billion in U.S. Investments in Five Continents: Paintings by Mitchell Jamieson
Pg… 41 SAC Keeps Vigil at Outposts in Spain and Africa
Pg… 47 Army Officers Advise Korean Military
Pg… 52 The Diplomatic Pacific Fleet?6 Pages in Color
Pg… 59 Family from Little Rock Settles Down in India
Pg… 66 “Look at the American Signora” ?Our Women Overseas: an Article by William Brinkley
Pg… 91 Minneapolis Boy’s Summer in Japan
Pg… 95 Roving A.F.L.–C.I.O. Man in Europe
Pg… 98 A Bostonian Who Practices Hinduism
Pg… 100 The Man on the Cover: Hank Miller in Laos
Pg… 104 Artists and Future Priests Studying in Rome
Pg… 111 Astute Plan for New Embassies
Pg… 116 Big Embassy in Paris, Consulate in Somalia
Pg… 122 Anti–U.S. Feeling on Okinawa
Pg… 126 Technical Aid in Old Cambodia?7 Pages in Color
Pg… 134 Merchant Fleet Showing the Flag
Pg… 137 Missionary Healers of Bodies and Souls in Africa
Pg… 140 Laramie, Wyo. And Its Ties to the Wide World
Pg… 150 How We Look to Others: Article by Robert Coughlan
Pg… 159 Yanks Who Don’t Go Home: Expatriates in Mexico
Pg… 167 Party in Old Country, in This Case, Sweden
