LIFE Magazine August 3, 1959

ON THE COVER: KINGSTON TRIO

INSIDE THE MAGAZINE:

Pg 14 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: Cuba Looks Down the Road to Chaos: Castro's Communist Coddling and Economic Bungling are Bad Signs for the Future. By Thomas Dozier

Pg 22 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: The May Queen's Baffling Journey: New Jersey's Gay Hart Confesses Her Abduction was a Hoax

Pg 24 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: The White Fleet Proposal Gets Fast Head of Steam: LIFE Poll of Congress Shows Overwhelming Enthusiasm

Pg 26 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: The Famous Debate in Close–Up Pictures: the Startlingly Undiplomatic Exchange of Khrushchev and U.S. Vice President

Pg 32 EDITORIAL: Geneva: a Review of the Bidding

Pg 39 PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAYS: A Display of Beauties at Seville: Festival is Fine Place to Watch the Girls Go By

Pg 50 PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAYS: Second Homes for Family Vacations: as Their Numbers Increase, They Take Odd, Playful Shapes

Pg 66 PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAYS: Old Age: Part IV. Unnecessary Fate of the Old and Sick: Sound Rehabilitation Methods Prove a Pitiable Plight Can be Avoided. Photographed for LIFE by Carl Mydans and Grey Villet. Plus the New York State Program for the Aged. By Governor Nelson Rockefeller

Pg 78 ARTICLE: Iraq's "Sole Leader" Shows a New Strength: After a Tottery Year the Mysterious Kassem Suddenly Cracks Down on the Communists. By Keith Wheeler, LIFE Associate Editor

Pg 34 SPORTS: An Eccentric Champ from France: Foreign Trotter Brings Tender Ears and Strange Tastes to a U.S. Race

Pg 76 SPORTS: Greatest All–Round Athlete: U.S.S.R.'S Kuznetsov Wins Decathlon in U.S.–Russian Track Meet in Philadelphia

Pg 44 MODERN LIVING: Five Years Old and 25 mph: Youngsters Pilot Small Power Boats Over a Raving Course in Southern California

Pg 89 PARTY: Arch to Arc in a Hurry: London Daily Mail Contest Launches a Goofy Two–Way Race Between Paris and London

P… 48 FASHION: Real Gone Garb for Fall, Beat but Neat: Patterned Sweaters Called Beat–Knits are Respectable Version of Those Beatniks Wear

Pg 61 ENTERTAINMENT: A Trio in Tune Makes the Top: the Kingston Trio Rides High on a New Vogue for Tuneful, Tasteful Songs

Pg 8 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Speaking of Pictures: Sea Gulls get a Handout

Pg 10 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Letters to the Editors

Pg 92 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Miscellany: Sting in the Specifications

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