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Pg… 4 Editorials: First Gentleman of the World
Pg… 4 Editorials: Cars, Roads, Drivers and Safety
Pg… 13 LIFE Reviews: Theater: The Taming of the Shrew and King Lear, Reviewed by Emily Coleman
Pg… 13 LIFE Reviews: Book: The Garden of the Finzi–Continis, by Giorgio Basani, Reviewed by Jakov Lind
Pg… 13 LIFE Reviews: Movie: Von Ryan's Express, Reviewed by Thomas Thompson
Pg… 19 Letters to the Editors
Pg… 21 The View from Here: Invitation to a Hard Time Ahead. By Loudon Wainwright
Pg… 22 Stevenson of Illinois: The Death of America's "Foremost Advocate and Its Most Eloquent Spirit." The Warmth and Wit that Marked His Style
Pg… 30 First Close Look at Mars: Mariner IV Makes Its Historic Photo Reconnaissance of Earth's Sister Planet
Pg… 32 Items in the News
Pg… 32B Washington Report
Pg… 37 Close–Up: Alfred and Blanche Knopf: Imperious Publishers of Fine Books Celebrates a Golden Anniversary of Excellence and Reminisce About Their Illustrious Roster of Authors
Pg… 42 Unmentionables are Now Mentionable: The New Lingerie Can now be Worn and In Public?and is Seen Here on the Island of Tobago. Photographed for LIFE by Norman Parkinson
Pg… 52A Bigamy Italian Style: Special Report from Rome and the Marital Mix–Up of Sophia Loren and Carlo Ponti. By Dora Jane Hamblin
Pg… 54 Vietnam: 'Five Minutes to Darkness': Bitter Dilemmas Bring a New U.S. Strategy, "We've Got to Go Fast," Says General Nguyen Cao Ky
Pg… 62 The Bay of Pigs: Part II of "A Thousand Days." by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. the Historian and Member of the Kennedy Inner Circle Tells About the Cuban Disaster?"A Horribly Expensive Lesson"?and the Famous Controversy Over It
Pg… 76 Art: A Summer's Day: A Nostalgic Glow Fills American Museums
Pg… 80 Twenty–Three Hours of Terror: California Finance Director Hale Champion's First–Person Account of His Family's Ordeal While Held as Hostages by a Pair of Desperadoes
Pg… 82 Miscellany: Free You Later, Gator