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
Pg… 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
Life Magazine August 10, 1959 Pat Nixon in Russia
Pg… 22 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: A Barnstorming Masterpiece: the Vice President in Russia
Pg… 36 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: A Look at the World's Week
Pg… 43 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: Swindling Rogue is Found in Rio
Pg… 46 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: In Teeth of Shark Scare
Pg… 38 EDITORIALS: A New Kind of Steel Strike
Pg… 38 EDITORIALS: Nasser and the West
Pg… 56 PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAYS: A Newer New York: Giant Construction Boom Reveals New Faces of the Great City. Photographed for LIFE by Dmitri Kessel and Farrell Grehan
Pg… 91 PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAYS: Surprising Successes of Young Entrepreneurs: with Imaginations and Industry Teen–Agers Turn Odd Jobs into Regular Profits
Pg… 100 ARTICLE: A Growing U.S. Fad: Falls for Fun; Enthusiasts Drop 10,500 Feet in One Minute, go 125 mph, Fly Like Birds in the Exuberant Sport of Parachuting. By Loudon S. Wainwright
Pg… 51 MODERN LIVING: Their Sheltered Honeymoon: Newlyweds Spend Their First Two Weeks Together Testing an Underground Bomb Shelter
Pg… 71 ENTERTAINMENT: Televsion's Remarkable Rube: Oldtime, All–Around Vaudevillian Charley Weaver Turns His Talents to Many Business Enterprises and Private Amusements. By Tom Prideaux, LIFE Entertainment Editor
Pg… 76 MOVIES: Mighty Profits of Hercules: Italian Movie Makes Good with American Muscle Man
Pg… 83 RELIGION: The Children's Cardinal: Domenico Tardini, Vatican Secretary of State, Runs Orphanage on the Side
Pg… 99 ART: Pasternak in Bronze: Amateur American Sculptor, Leo Cherne, Creates a Bust of Famous Russian Author
Pg… 117 PARTY: Roman Rollicking in Texas: Houston Couple Throws a Roman Party for Their Friends
Pg… 14 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Speaking of Pictures: Bardolatrie in Paris?the B?b? Look
Pg… 16 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Letters to the Editors
Pg… 120 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Miscellany: Trying for Spilt Milk
Life Magazine August 17, 1959 May Britt
Pg… 16 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: In the Rockefeller–Rasmussen Romance a Bike is as Romantic as a Black Charger
Pg… 24 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: A Look at the World's Week
Pg… 26 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: The Poles' Welcome to the Nixons is All Heart During a Climactic Visit to Warsaw
Pg… 34 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: How Americans were Duped into Bloody Castro Fiasco
Pg… 41 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: The Unique Hawaiian Look in Politics: the Islands Go All Out in Their First Election as a Full–Fledged State
Pg… 33 EDITORIAL: Shall the People Govern?
Pg… 50 PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAYS: Tuscany: the Renaissance Revisited in the Italian Province that Cradled Western Genius. Photographs by Gjon Mili. Text by Lincoln Barnett
Pg… 81 PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAYS: Alpine Elephant without Hannibal: Jumbo Jauntily Retraces the Route Carthage's Elephants Took 2,177 Years Ago. Photographed for LIFE by David Lees and Pierre Boulat
Pg… 73 ARTICLES: Poet Paul Engle Tells of His Family's Ordeal When Faced by Two Convicts and Pays a Tribute to Spunky Womanhood
Pg… 88 ARTICLES: A Plan to Save the Vanishing U.S. Countryside: an Expert Observer Tells how to Protect Our Open Spaces and Halt the Land–Killing Disease of Urban Sprawl. By William H. Whyte Jr.
Pg… 68 MOVIES: May Britt, Sultry with a Quiet Way About Her, Promises to Rival Sweden's Other Gifts to Hollywood, Greta Garbo and Ingrid Bergman
Pg… 105 PARTY: Island Idyl for U.S. Governors in Puerto Rico Offers a Refreshing Glimpse of the Lighter Side of Politics
Pg… 8 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Speaking of Pictures: High and Outsize Baseball
Pg… 10 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Letters to the Editors
Pg… 108 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Miscellany: Fireman Gets His Fill