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Pg… 4B Editorial: Why We Must Put Holes in the Iron Curtain
Pg… 9 U.S.–Bound Showmen: Soviet Puppeteers, Theater People Ask: "Will it Go on Broadway?" Special Report by Tom Prideaux
Pg… 22 LIFE Guide: How to Visit the Soviet Union?How to Get There, Where to Go, What to Expect. Sights on a Long Trip. Photographer Stan Wayman Traveled 10,000 Miles and Saw Everything from Roughriders to Sweet Girls
Pg… 31 Letters to the Editors
Pg… 34 The Biggest Story?Housing: Throughout the U.S.S.R. History's Biggest Boom in Prefab Apartment Construction is in the Works
Pg… 42 Sweetheart of Space: The First Woman Cosmonaut Goes Home
Pg… 44 Items in the News in the U.S.S.R.: Huge Earth Mover Digs the Biggest Scoop. Comely Gymnasts Limber Up for the Olympics. Weekend Sportsmen Hold a Splashy Kayak Race
Pg… 44B High–Diving Seal: He Goes Head First Off the Rocks
Pg… 49 Rescue of a U.S. Flier: Soviet Fishermen Reel Him in Near Cape Cod and Record the Drama on Film
Pg… 55 The Soviet Economy: It Keeps Growing but That's Not Enough. Heavy Industry Thrives; Agriculture Doesn't
Pg… 73 Rare View of Top Men: Gallery of Leaders Photographed by Yousuf Karsh Starts with Khrushchev in a Huge Fur Coat
Pg… 81 Party and Government: How the Country is Controlled
Pg… 88B A Prospering Family: Meet Alexander, Eliena, Sasha and Natasha Lozovan of Moscow Who, by Russian Standards, are Affluent Upper Class
Pg… 100 Moffetts Go A–Moseying: An Editor Puts His Kids in a Soviet Camp and Takes a Trip Around the Country. By Hugh Moffett
Pg… 113 High–Fashion Designer: Slava Changes Things and the Ladies are Trimmer in His Styles
Pg… 117 Savory Regional Food: Moscow's Fine Restaurants are the Showcases for Churek, Piti, Shashlyk, Varentjky and Gury
Pg… 123 Hosts with Most Toasts: LIFE Goes to Soviet Georgia and Samples Its Renowned Hospitality. By Robert Brigham
Pg… 128 Miscellany: As Ways Change, an Old Bird Hangs On