Pg… 40 STORY OF THE WEEK: Unsung Victory: from the Congo, a Front–Line Report on U.N. Soldiers of Peace Waging a War Against War. Photographed for LIFE by Howard Sochurek. "Deeds Brave Enough to Win Medals in Any War." By Kenneth Gouldthorpe

Pg… 52 NEWSFRONTS: In Pictures and Text: Best of the Beauties?Tightened German Election?Neutrals: No Help to Us?New Word Book, "Ain't to Zen"?A Parlayed Picasso?Paar's Personal War

Pg… 4 EDITORIAL: The Power and the Honor

Pg… 78 THE COLOR SPECTACLE: New Classics: U.S. Furniture Designer Looks Back to Ancient Greece for Inspiration. Photographed for LIFE by Loomis Dean

Pg… 95 THE PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY: Fallout Shelters: You Could be Among the 97% to Survive If You Follow the Advice in This Article. An Urgent Letter to All Americans from President Kennedy

Pg… 114 ARTICLE OF THE WEEK: Modern Courtship: the Great Illusion. Part II in LIFE'S Series on Love and Marriage. By Ernest Havemann

Pg… 140 SPOTLIGHT: A Sudden Surge of Magnetic Males: New Crop of Blue–Chip Movie Stars Comes from Europe

Pg… 19 DEPARTMENTS: People Worth Knowing: a Rising Young Rocketeer: Marshall Kriesel Builds an Extraordinary Bird and Gets It Test–Fired by the Navy

Pg… 63 DEPARTMENTS: Youth: Peace Corps Takes the Field?Off to Their Remote Jobs Throughout the World

Pg… 73 DEPARTMENTS: Science: Quick Save from a Hot Bed: a Lesson in Lifesaving in a Hospital "Fire"

Pg… 87 DEPARTMENTS: Sports: Mister Broken Bones: Rodeo Star Jim Shoulders is Busted by Bulls

Pg… 130 DEPARTMENTS: Animals: a Delinquent Donkey Learns to Grow Up: the Fable of a Four–Legged Problem Child

Pg… 35 DEPARTMENTS: Special Report: with the Police on an Integration Job: a Quiet Triumph in Atlanta. By George McMillian

Pg… 29 DEPARTMENTS: LIFE GUIDE to Art of Every Type and Time, Americana, Books, Music

Pg… 13 DEPARTMENTS: Letters to the Editors

Pg… 150 DEPARTMENTS: Miscellany: High Ride and Handsome