Pg… 4 Editorial: Johnson Means Business in Vietnam Pg… 6 LIFE Reviews: Book: Peter De Vries’s Let Me Count the Ways, Reviewed by Richard P. Brickner Pg… 6 LIFE Reviews: Movie: Ship of Fools, Reviewed by Richard Schickel Pg… 13 Letters to the Editors Pg… 14 The View from Here: Our Encounter with Mars. By Loudon Wainwright Pg… 16 Long Guns Flash on the China Sea: U.S. Seapower Strikes at the Enemy in Vietnam. Photographed by Bill Ray Pg… 26 Items in the News Pg… 26B Russia’s Lethal Surface–to–Air Missile: Sophisticated Antiaircraft Weapon is a New Factor in the Vietnam War. Startling Pictures of a Deadly Accurate Test–Firing in the U.S.S.R. Pg… 26D White House Council of War: How President Johnson and His Advisers Arrived at Their Decisions on Vietnam. By Richard B. Stolley Pg… 29 Big Row Over Texas Gulf Sulphur: An SEC Suit Raises Questions of Investment Ethics. By Chris Welles Pg… 39 Chip Off the Old Hemingway: Close–Up of the Novelist’s Son Patrick in Africa Pg… 46 A Lovely Island Called Dominica: The Unspoiled Beauty of a Caribbean Land that Few Men have Ever Seen. Photographed by John Dominis Pg… 62A The Terrain of Mars: Spectacular Mariner IV Pictures Show Surface Features in Detail Pg… 62D Spain’s Great Beatnik Bullfighter: The Triumph of El Cordob?s in the Ring?and the Carefree Life He Leads When He’s Not Facing the Bulls. Photographed by Loomis Dean Pg… 71 Brotherly Boom in Burglaries: A One–Family Crime Wave in Chicago. By Keith Wheeler Pg… 81 Teen–Age Fashions for Fall: High School Girls and a Computer Team Up to Predict Style Trends Pg… 88 Miscellany: The Monster of Bogey Lake
Pg… 4 Editorials: The Big Sewer in the Sky
Pg… 4 Editorials: 'Instant' and Judicial History
Pg… 10 LIFE Reviews: Book: Kenneth E. Read's The High Valley, Reviewed by Loren C. Eiseley
Pg… 10 LIFE Reviews: Movie: Bernardo Bertotucci's Before the Revolution, Reviewed by Pauline Kael
Pg… 10 LIFE Reviews: Poetry: W. H. Auden's About the House, Reviewed by Robert Phelps
Pg… 19 Letters to the Editors
Pg… 22 The Quintuplet Epidemic: Two Sets?Born in One Week?Result from a Fantastic Fertility Drug
Pg… 32 Items in the New
Pg… 34 Seattle's Big Blowout for a Killer Whale
Pg… 36 Inferno on the French Riviera
Pg… 36B 45 Minutes From Downtown Tokyo
Pg… 39 Boom in Men's Beauty Aids: The Cosmetics Industry Bets It Can Overcome the "Sissiness Factor"?and Seems to be Doing It
Pg… 43 The Ark that John Huston Built: A Floating Menagerie for a Bible Epic
Pg… 48 Volley of Changes in Tennis: Frilly New Styles for Women, New Scoring Rules for Men
Pg… 56A Santo Domingo's 'June14th' Rebels: Special Report by Miguel Acoca on a Band of Castro Supporters
Pg… 56B Private World of Lady Bird Johnson: The First Lady Writes Her Own Pictures Essay on Life in the White House and Down at the LBJ. Photographed by Stan Wayman
Pg… 67 No–Rock, No–Mop Teen–Agers: "The Young Americans" Make Music that can be Understood–and Hummed
Pg… 70 Back to Boot Camp with Art Buchwald: The Funny Former Marine Finds Basic Training Just the Way He Remembered It?Only More So
Pg… 82 Ideas in Houses: A Fortress by the Sea: Towers of Privacy on a Spice of Rock
Pg… 90 Miscellany: Ground–Breaker's Divot
Pg… 4 Editorials: Police Find Lawyer Friends
Pg… 4 Editorials: Bad Day in a Rear Area of Asia
Pg… 6 LIFE Reviews: Books: Michael Harrington's The Accidental Century, Reviewed by Bernard D. Nossiter; the New Edition of Fowler's A Dictionary of Modern English Usage, Reviewed by George Frazier
Pg… 6 LIFE Reviews: Movie: Casanova 70, Reviewed by David Martin
Pg… 15 Letters to the Editors
Pg… 21 The View from Here: Exploring Depths of Sea and Men, by Loudon Wainwright
Pg… 22 Doubling Up the Draft: What Happens When You Get Called
Pg… 32 Hiroshima 20 Years Later
Pg… 34 New Voting Law, New Voters
Pg… 34B Sinatra's Seagoing Soap Opera
Pg… 37 Sports: Countdown for Joe Namath
Pg… 45 Fashion: It's All Got to Match
Pg… 50 Big–Time Rodeo: The Breakneck Spectacle. By John R. McDermott. Photographed by Carlo Bavagnoli
Pg… 65 The Singapore Crisis: Special Report by Robert Morse
Pg… 68 Murder on a Banana Boat: The Strange Affair of the Seven Seas
Pg… 72 Pop Culture?the 'Ins' and 'Outs': A Handy Guide for Getting with It. By Gloria Steinem
Pg… 90 Great Dinners: Frogs Legs in Wine: A Gourmet Delight. Photographed by John Dominis
Pg… 96 Miscellany: Forty Winks?Plus One
Life Magazine August 27, 1965 Watts Riot Arson and Street War
Pg… 4 Editorial: Some Negroes Riot but Most Go Forward
Pg… 6 LIFE Reviews: Book: Shelley Mydans' Thomas, Reviewed by A. L. Rowse
Pg… 6 LIFE Reviews: Movie: Darling, Reviewed by Richard Schickel
Pg… 6 LIFE Reviews: Music: Ellington at the Philharmonic, Reviewed by Carter Harman
Pg… 17 Letters to the Editors
Pg… 18 The Feminine Eye: My Friend in Watts. By Shana Alexander
Pg… 20 The Los Angeles Riots: Arson, Death and the War Cry, "Get Whitey"
Pg… 39 The Man Who Paints Big Eyes: Phenomenal Success of Walter Keane. By Jane Howard
Pg… 50 The '8 ?' Director Is at It Again: A New Film Fantasy by Italy's Fellini
Pg… 59 The Run on Guns: Negro Rioters and Terrified Whites Take Up Arms in Los Angles?and Point Up a Lethal National Problem
Pg… 62 The Rifle that Killed Kennedy: Its Trail from a Factory in Italy to a Collector in Denver. By Keith Wheeler
Pg… 66 Meet Master Rockefeller: Happy and Rocky's Baby at 15 Months. Photographed by Alfred Eisenstaedt
Pg… 73 Attacked by a Grizzly Bear: The Ordeal of a Boy All but Eaten Alive
Pg… 84 Magnificent Pique–Nique: Five Celebrated Chefs on a Cookout
Pg… 89 My Moscow–Belgrade 'Vacation': Special Report by W. Averell Harriman on His Talks with Russia's Kosygin and Yugoslavia's Tito
Pg… 92 Miscellany: Extenuating Circumstances