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Pg… 4 Editorial: To L.B.J.: What IS Our Aim in Vietnam?
Pg… 8 LIFE Reviews: Book: Stephen Becker's A Covenant with Death, Reviewed by Robert Traver
Pg… 8 LIFE Reviews: Movie: Sex and the Single Girl, Reviewed by Thomas Thompson
Pg… 8 LIFE Reviews: Theater: The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company on Tour in America, Reviewed by David E. Scherman
Pg… 17 Letters to the Editors
Pg… 19 The View from Here: Expectations are not Great Enough. By Loudon Wainwright
Pg… 20 Deluge and Havoc in the Northwest: A Bizarre Union of Tropical Rains and Blizzards Lays Waste a Lovely Land in One of the Worst U.S. Floods in History
Pg… 28 Explosion in Saigon: As South Vietnam's Generals and Politicians Wrangle, a Communist Terrorist Bomb Destroys a U.S. Officers' Billet
Pg… 30 Items in the News
Pg… 32 LIFE Washington Report
Pg… 37 What To Do About De Gaulle?: The Big Question in Europe Turns on France's Difficult President. By Hugh Moffett
Pg… 46 Audacious New Swim Suits: Las Vegas Chorus Girls Model Them Against the Lavish Backdrops of the Famed Strip
Pg… 60 The Pressures of College: First of a Three–Part Series: U.S. Campuses and the Students Who Inhabit Them are Forced Into a Ruthless Race to Make the Grade. Photographed for LIFE by Bill Eppridge
Pg… 75 Henry Roth's Late–Blooming Success: After Three Decades, His Novel, Call It Sleep, Becomes a Best–Seller
Pg… 79 Broadway's Wonderful Wallachs: Eli and His Wife Anne Jackson have a Lark in a Hit Called Luv?and It's Luv at Home Too
Pg… 86 Miscellany: Cat on a Hot Pin Roost