Pg… 27 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: Buddha's 2,500th Anniversary Brings Hosts of His Half–Billion Believers to Celebrations Both Pious and Gay
Pg… 32 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: Two Eggs Hatch and Now the Small Flock of U.S. Whooping Cranes Numbers 30
Pg… 34 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: A Parliamentary Row Over Helping U.S. Financiers with Pipeline Challenges Government of Canada
Pg… 36 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: A Look at the World's Week
Pg… 38 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: Satchmo is a Smash on Africa's Gold Coast
Pg… 45 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: Communist Stooge Nenni Becomes a Power in Italy
Pg… 48 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: Segregated Negroes Introduce Bus Stop Protest Into Another City, Tallahassee
Pg… 40 EDITORIAL: Advice from and to Writers
Pg… 138 PICTORIAL ESSAY: The Story of the Mighty Yangtze, John Hersey's New Novel, "A Single Pebble," is Born of a Voyage that He and Photographer Dmitri Kessel Made for LIFE on China's Great River
Pg… 77 CLOSE–UP: Averell Harriman, the Dark Horse with the Best Handlers, by James Keogh: Third in LIFE'S Series on Democratic Candidates
Pg… 151 ARTICLE: The Mystery and Misery of the Aching Back. By Ernest Havemann
Pg… 50 EDUCATION: Wake Forest College Moves 110 Miles to a New $19 Million Campus
Pg… 59 MOVIES: There are no Words at All in Gene Kelly's "Invitation to the Dance"
Pg… 111 MOVIES: Girl on the Eve of a Triumph: Carroll Baker Shows Her Dramatic Skill in Making "Baby Doll"
Pg… 66 AGRICULTURE: English Farmer Rigs Up a Self–Steering Tractor that Farms Alone
Pg… 71 MODERN LIVING: An Amphibious Trailer is at Home on the Highway and in the Water
Pg… 97 THEATER: Four–Faced Hamlet: in a Brilliant Production by Baylor University Drama Students, Shakespeare's Hero is Played by a Quartet of Actors
Pg… 102 FASHION: California Style on the Backlots: Clothes Travel Around Film's Imitation World. Photographed for LIFE by Gordon Parks
Pg… 123 ART: Sculputre on the Rocks: a Greek–Born Artist Finds Form and Faces in Ordinary Stones
Pg… 126 MEDICINE: New Cigaret–Cancer Link: Study Shows that as Smoking Rate Rises, so Does Lung Damage
Pg… 137 MUSIC: "T–r–a–n–s–fusion" is a Gruesome New Song Hit
Pg… 168 PARTY: Part IV in the LIFE Series on How to Give Children's Parties: Boys and Girls of 12 Whoop It Up Together
Pg… 22 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Letters to the Editors
Pg… 20 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Speaking of Pictures: Visual Aids in Think Session Help Navy Men to Be Creative
Pg… 176 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Miscellany: a Propaganda Pup