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Pg… 28 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: South Frets Over the Case of Miss Lucy, a Test of Integration in the School System
Pg… 34 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: A Look at the World's Week
Pg… 36 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: Nigeria Parades for Queen Elizabeth
Pg… 49 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: A Collapsible Rubber Plane Takes the Air
Pg… 50 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: An Attack on a Peacemaker in France's Troubled Relations with Algeria
Pg… 52 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: The Cause of the International Row Over Balloons
Pg… 57 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: The Big Diamond: Jeweler Harry Winston Wonders what to do with an $8.4 Million Stone
Pg… 44 EDITORIAL: The Feud and Its Ghost
Pg… 109 PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY: Washington's Trek to Fame: His Greatness Began with a Bitter Winter's Trip from Virginia to the Ohio Valley in 1753 Over a Route Which in Many Places Remains Unchanged. Photographed for LIFE by Peter Stackpole
Pg… 118 ARTICLES: A Candid Analysis of the '52 Campaign: In Part V of His Memoirs, Harry Truman Tells How "Millions of Votes" May have Been "Needlessly Sacrificed" by Stevenson and Describes a Tense Postelection Meeting with Eisenhower
Pg… 75 ARTICLES: H.L. Mencken: His Last Gibes and Brickbats. Selections from Recently Found Notebooks, Soon to Appear as "Minority Report"
Pg… 64 FASHION: New Color and Patterns Cure Leather's Ruggedness. Photographed for LIFE by Gordon Parks
Pg… 70 SCIENCE: Big Flesh Market for Physicists: 300 Companies Try to Lure Scientists Assembled for Convention in New York
Pg… 80 MOVIES: The Dark History of a Wicked King: Olivier Makes a Brilliant Film Version of Shakespeare's "Richard III"
Pg… 93 MILITARY AFFAIRS: Oscar the Airborne Mouse Jumps with His Master in Germany
Pg… 101 ART: Dresden's Great Art Returns Gravely Damaged After 10 Years in Russia
Pg… 138 PARTY: An Aircraft Carrier Establishes Its Good Name by Keeping the Crew Happy
Pg… 12 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Speaking of Pictures: An Ebony to Apple Blossom Beauty Contest
Pg… 15 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Letters to the Editors
Pg… 140 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Miscellany: Watched Pots Watching