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Pg… 26 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: The Astronauts?Ready to Make History. The Editors of LIFE Start a Continuing Exclusive Personal Account of Man's Greatest Adventure. The Seven Astronauts Tell Their Stories and Their Rigorous Training is Shown in Color Photographs by Ralph Morse
Pg… 44 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: Ike's Way as the Free World's First Personage?and What He Achieved in Europe. By John Osborne, LIFE Staff Writer
Pg… 53 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: Killings by a Teen–Age "Cape Man" Stun New York with a Continuation of Senseless Gang Brutality
Pg… 56 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: Laos Faces Beefed–Up Communist Onslaught: a Hard–Pressed Kingdom Pleads for U.N. Troops to Save Its Independence
Pg… 63 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: An Underwater Treasure Haul: Skindivers Discover Wreck of a Spanish Galleon is Waters Off Bermuda
Pg… 48 EDITORIALS: Politics and the Better Life
Pg… 48 EDITORIALS: Opportunity for the Gifted
Pg… 102 PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAYS: Russian Orthodox Church: a Splendor Captured by the Communists. Photographed for LIFE by Cornell Capa
Pg… 157 PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAYS: Birth Pangs at Detroit for a New Economy Car: Ford's Young Creative Team Fools the Pressure in Big Auto Battle. Photographed by Cornell Capa
Pg… 135 ARTICLE: My Four Years in Church Attic; Chinese Student Describes His Self–Exile in Ann Arbor, Mich. By Chheng Guan Lim
Pg… 69 FASHION: Snappy Wrap–Around for Suzy: a Glamor Style of 20 Years Ago is Revived and Modeled by Miss Parker
Pg… 131 MOVIES: Clean–Cut Kids in a Bedroom Farce: Debbie Reynolds and Glenn Ford in It Started with a Kiss
Pg… 143 CLOSE–UP: Student and Teacher of Human Ways: Anthropologist Margaret Mead, America's Best–Known Woman Scientist, Gives Modern America Some Tips for Improvement
Pg… 151 SPORTS: Tennis Loses Its Audience: "Big Game's" Killing Serve and Volley are the Causes; Experts Propose New Rules. By Marshall Smith, LIFE Sports Editor
Pg… 167 BOOKS: Provocative Girl of Israel: with a Frank Novel about Army Life, 20–Year–Old Yael Dayan Becomes the Sagan of a New Israeli Generation
Pg… 175 PARTY: Islanders Kick Up Heels: Families on Hickory Island Near Detroit have a Day of Old–Fashioned Late Summer Fun
Pg… 12 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Speaking of Pictures: Eyes Out for Trouble
Pg… 16 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Letters to the Editors
Pg… 178 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Miscellany: a Beat Swimmer from Borneo