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Pg… 4 Editorials: Why Kennedy's Tax Cut Troubles Grow Worse. Adenauer Stands Up for NATO
Pg… 8 LIFE Guide: Historic Warships Wait to Pipe You Aboard; a Mouse Race, and a Deluge of Doomsday Books
Pg… 15 Invest in a Good Crook: To a Bail Bondsman, at Least, He is a Worthy Risk. Special Report by James Breslin
Pg… 23 Letters to the Editors
Pg… 26 J.F.K. in Costa Rica: The President Looks in on a Sparkling New Show?Central America's "Little Common Market"?and Works Toward the Isolation of Cuba. Photographed for LIFE by John Dominis. Lee Hall Cables a Report
Pg… 36 Stars in Motion: Ginger Rogers Still Clicks, a Pretty Baton Twirler Spins and Loses, Jack Benny Plays the Mikado, Basketball Player Bob Cousy Steps Down and a TV Row Boils Up
Pg… 38 Mother Seton Beatified: An American–Born Nun Rises a Step Nearer Sainthood
Pg… 38B Thriller Over Pacific: Passengers Chuck Out Money, Whisky and Diapers to Keep a Plane Airborne After Two Engines Fail Between Hawaii and the California Coast. By James Leveque
Pg… 43 Giant Tires Roll Anywhere: Bunyan–Sized Army Vehicle Travels Over Hill, Dale, Desert and Ditch
Pg… 48 Inside a Human Cell: Part III of LIFE'S Series on the Body. Paintings by Arthur Lidov Reveal the Extraordinary Workings of the Cells as They Turn Food Into Energy. Nobel Prize Winners' Work Gives New Insight Into Diseases of Metabolism Like Diabetes and Atherosclerosis
Pg… 70 Spring Training, De Luxe: The Angels Set the Pace as Baseball, Which Once Housed Its Players in Hovels, Now Dumps Them in the Lap of Luxury. By Marshall Smith
Pg… 79 Nightmare Rail Ride: The True Story of a Man Trapped in Runaway Locomotives Going 89 mph. By Warren R. Young
Pg… 87 Wow, What a Western!: How the West Was Won, the Biggest and Loudest Horse Opera Ever, is Packed with All the Classic Ingredients
Pg… 94 Miscellany: But for a Trunk?Clunk
