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Pg… 4 Editorials: More Fingers on the Trigger? Pg… 4 Editorals: Why Teacher Can’t Teach Pg… 10 LIFE Guide: A Garland of Good Movies from Here and Abroad. Springtime Spectacles and Events Pg… 15 Ride the ‘Slipstream’: Special Report by Tom Flaherty on a Foxy Auto–Racing Art Pg… 21 Letters to the Editors Pg… 22 Polaris on the Prowl: A Deadly Seagoing Nuclear Arsenal Dives Its Lonely Deep–Fathom Way. By Robert Brigham. Photographed for LIFE by Paul Schutzer Pg… 32 Grand Ole Opry’s Grief: The Famous Performers of Country Music Say “So Long” to Colleagues Killed in Plane Crash?and the Show Goes On Pg… 34 Portrait of a Sister Planet: As Scouted by the Far–Ranging Mariner, Venus Glows Like Burning Coal Pg… 36 Comeback of Nasserism: Pro–U.A.R. Rebels Take Over in Syria as the Fever Spreads Though the Middle East Pg… 41 Reprieve for Doomed Dogs: A Spinster’s Last Will Ordered Her Pets Killed, but Practically Everybody Speaks Up to Stop It Pg… 42 Arabian Nights Tale: A New York Court Upholds a Young Woman’s Claim that She is the Widow of Iraq’s Murdered King Feisal, but the Fight Goes On Pg… 44 Concerto for Nixon and Violins: To Stringed Accompaniment the Former Vice President Plays His Own Piano Composition?and Composes Some Thoughts on Politics Pg… 47 Children’s Art in Fashions: Grownups Wear Schoolgirl Patterns Pg… 53 Queen’s Colorful Tour: Elizabeth II and Philip get South Seas Welcome and Some Sunburn Pg… 58 Mount Everest, Anyone?: Some Daredevil Americans Break All the Rules but Nearly Conquer the World’s Highest Peak?and Nearly Kill Themselves. By Woodrow Wilson Sayre Pg… 78 Platoon System of Teaching: New Educational Technique Streamlines the Learning Process and Makes it Exciting. Photographed for LIFE by Cornell Capa Pg… 89 Girls on a Men–Only Team: Tulane Adds Coeds to Its Varsity Swimming Squad to Improve Scores and the Looks of Things Pg… 93 Cowhide and Curved Steel: These Chairs are Up–to–the–Minute Antiques Pg… 99 The Helidoctor: Nebraska Physician Makes His Rounds by Whirly Bird Pg… 103 What’s With Jack?: You Would Never Guess It, but the Great Lemmon is a Worried Man. By Peter Bunzel Pg… 110 Miscellany: Steady, Teddy