Pg… 8 Editorials: Kashmir and the Unstable Peace Pg… 8 Editorials: The Minority TV Should Cultivate Pg… 13 LIFE Reviews: Books: John Philips’ The Italians: Face of a Nation, Reviewed by Luigi Barzini Pg… 13 LIFE Reviews: Movie: King and Country, Reviewed by Brian O’Doherty Pg… 23 Letters to the Editors Pg… 25 The View from Here: A Vulgar Tribute to Greatness. By Loudon Wainwright Pg… 26 Willie Mays Hurtles to the Finish: The Giant Star Gives His Best to His Team and Gives Baseball Its Finest Hour Pg… 34 Hanol: Inside the Enemy Capital Pg… 36 Items in the News Pg… 43 The West German Election: Special Report by Hugh Moffett Pg… 49 Toughest Woman in Real Estate: New York’s Cecilia Benattar Doesn’t Cry in Business Pg… 57 Fall Fashion Isn’t All Knee: A Maverick Raincoat Goes Down to the Ankle and California Kids Go to New Lengths Pg… 64 Alaska: The Hard Country: First of Two Picture Essays on the 49th and 50th States: The Land, Its Historical Relics and its Old Settlers have the Frontier Look. Photographed by Ralph Crane. A Lively Jaunt Around the Big State. By Mary Letherbee Pg… 90 Opera: Young Offshoot of the Met: A Brilliant Subsidiary Company of Non–Stars Who Double as Dancers Pg… 94 Control of Life: The New Man: What Will He be Like? The Fantastic Advances of Science Create Complex and Urgent Dilemmas. By Albert Rosenfeld Pg… 113 Astronauts Meet the Cosmonauts: They Find a Rendezvous on Land Far More Difficult than One in Space. By Jim Hicks Pg… 118 Great TV Spy Scramble: Competitors Open Fire on U.N.C.L.E’s Domain Pg… 122 Miscellany: A Fur–Lined Catnap