LIFE Magazine January 19, 1959

Pg… 16 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Political Fights, Parties?Pretty Women and Pathos: Old Order Yields in the 1959 Scene Pg… 28 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Liberator’s Triumphal March Though an Ecstatic Island: Castro Calls on Cuba to Purify Itself and Prosper Pg… 38 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: A Look at the World’s Week Pg… 37 EDITORIALS: The Warning of Mechta Pg… 37 EDITORIALS: We’ll Miss You, Joe Martin Pg… 52 PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAYS: Houses Architects Live In: Homes Reveal Four Famous Designers’ Ideas Pg… 91 PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAYS: Communist in Capitalism: U.S. Supermarkets and Hard Tops Captivate Old Bolshevik Rubberneck Mikoyan Pg… 102 ARTICLE: The Foolish and Phony Craze for Crash Diets: Millions Who Suffer Through Blitz Methods Would Take Off More Pounds and Keep Them Off Just by Changing a Few Minor Habits. By Ernest Havemann Pg… 47 CLOSE–UP: Danish Author Isak Dinesen, a Tale–Weaving Sorceress Pg… 59 THEATER: Julie Harris Goes on the Road with Her Son and a New Play She is Keeping from Broadway Pg… 65 NATURE: Salt–Water Fish for Home Aquariums Pg… 70 MOVIES: Ben–Hur Rides a Chariot Again: M–G–M is Spending $14 Million to Outdo Its Famous Roman Epic of 31 Years Ago Pg… 75 TELEVISION: This is a Television Cowboy? Stumblebum Hero Stars in Maverick. By Marion Hargrove Pg… 83 SPORTS: Odd Partners in Hot Basketball Act: Mutt–and–Jeff Pair Pulls North Carolina State Team Up Front Pg… 98 SCIENCE: What’s Going to Happen to Mechta? Odds are that Russia’s “Asteroid 31,208” will Stay in Orbit for Millions of Years. By Albert Rosenfeld Pg… 117 PARTY: Social Tilt at 12: Kids Win a Bout with Decorum, then Give in Pg… 10 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Speaking of Pictures: a Treeful of Tarzans Pg… 12 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Letters to the Editors Pg… 120 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Miscellany: a Hounded Hound