Pg… 26 STORIES OF THE WEEK: The Great Council Shines in Rome as Prelates at Ecumenical Assemblage Get Down to Work

Pg… 34 STORIES OF THE WEEK: The Blockade. U.S. Puts It on the Line. Daring Missions that Bared Cuba's Secrets. By John Dille. Step by Step in a Historic Week. By Richard Oulahan Jr.

Pg… 4 EDITORIAL: A New Resolve to Save the Old Freedoms

Pg… 70 PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY: Rocky Cradle of Football: in an Ohio Valley, a Big Play to Escape from the Mill Town. Photographed for LIFE by Mark Kauffman. Rule 1: Win or Else. By John R. McDermott

Pg… 89 ARTICLE OF THE WEEK: Algeria's Ben Bella, a Man the World Watches. By Edward Behr

Pg… 80 ART: Colossal Collections of Fakes. Strange story of Walter Chrysler Jr. Art Scandal. The Collector's Puzzling Path. By William J. Gill

Pg… 53 DEPARTMENTS: Sequel: Look, Mom, It's More Elephants

Pg… 59 DEPARTMENTS: Better Living: New Way with Wire

Pg… 63 DEPARTMENTS: Science: Cell's Prize Secret

Pg… 97 DEPARTMENTS: Fashion: Poor Little Rich Furs

Pg… 101 DEPARTMENTS: Movies: Natalie Wood Warms Up for a Take–Off

Pg… 13 DEPARTMENTS: Special Report: Bold Outpost Off China. By C. D. Jackson

Pg… 17 DEPARTMENTS: LIFE Guide to Television, Books, Festivals, Music

Pg… 21 DEPARTMENTS: Letters to the Editors

Pg… 104 DEPARTMENTS: Miscellany: Cocker's Crawdad Crisis