Pg… 4 Editorials: Foreign Aid is a Good Long–Term Policy Tool 4Editorials: To Ivan in Cuba: Now Hear This!

Pg… 8 LIFE Guide: A Bountiful Spring Crop of Art. British Dancers, German Writers, Dutch Musicians

Pg… 15 Horseplayer's Big Repeat: Ernest Havemann, Who Won $61,908 at Caliente Only Last January, Tells in a Special Report How?Incredible as It Might Seem?He Did It Again

Pg… 17 Letters to the Editors

Pg… 18 Sea Raiders Hit Cuba: Pictures and an Eyewitness Account of a Commando–Style Foray to Sink a Russian Freighter. The U.S. Cracks Down on Cuban Exiles

Pg… 26 Miners Face Down De Gaulle: The French President Yields to End Fifth Republic's Worst Strike

Pg… 28 Items in the News: Dick Gregory Takes a Hand in Mississippi. In London the Bobbies Take One in a Bruising Complication of the "Christine" Affair

Pg… 30 For Easternauts, Eggs OK!: Industrial Design Students Go Into Orbit to Solve a Classroom Problem

Pg… 37 Potential P.M.?a Puzzle: The U.S. Takes a Look at Harold Wilson Who Soon May Move Into Britain's No. 10 Downing Street?and Some British Wonder Where He Stands. By Timothy Green

Pg… 41 Sweet Singers from Korea: An Orphan Choir Charms Americans

Pg… 52 Great Art Rediscovered: In Remote Yugoslav Churches Remarkable Paintings of the Middle Ages Emerge from Beneath Centuries–Old Layers of Soot and Whitewash. Photographed for LIFE by Sonja Bullaty and Angelo Lomeo

Pg… 63 Readers Join a Debate: Letters to LIFE, Provoked by an Editorial on Bible Reading in the Schools, Add Lively Comments to Controversy

Pg… 68B Ordeal in the Yukon: Brooklyn's Helen Klaben and a Pilot Survive a Plane Crash and Spend 49 Days in Frozen Wastes of the Far North

Pg… 81 The Phony Tax–Lovers: Swindlers Make a Good Thing Out of Filing Returns on Income They Never Earned. By Keith Wheeler

Pg… 87 Hedda Hopper Lets Go: The Irrepressible Columnist Adds to Her Published Indiscretions with a New Book

Pg… 91 Shoot–'Em–Up in Thin Air: Sir Isaac Newton Practically Wrote the Script for Ripcord, a Wild TV Series Built Around the Parachuting Free Fall

Pg… 95 Whooping Argument: Zookeeper has Trouble Adding to His Flock of Nearly Extinct Cranes

Pg… 98 Miscellany: Tired, Let–Down Feeling

Pg… 4 Editorials: Good News in Canada

Pg… 4 Editorials: Big New in Russia

Pg… 10 The Unsure Sugar–Offer: Special Report by Bob Buyer on His Do–It–Yourself Go at Making Maple Syrup

Pg… 23 LIFE Guide: Big Doings in U.S. Public Libraries. What's on View in the Legitimate Theater; a Hike and a River Race

Pg… 29 Letters to the Editors

Pg… 30 A Poet vs Stalin: Russia's Evtushenko Cries Out in Verse and in a Revealing Personal Memoir, but the Ghost of the Dead Tyrant Silences Him as the Menace of Stalin–Style Purges Grows

Pg… 38 Death of a Submarine: Beneath the Atlantic Waves East of Boston the Nuclear Submarine Thresher Sends a Final Message, "We are Approaching Test Depth." Hours Later the 129 Officers and Men Aboard are Given Up for Lost. Other Submarine Veterans Speculate on What Might Have Happened, and an Artist Uses Their Guidance to Portray a Final Moment in the Deep.

Pg… 49 All Eyes on La Toria: Dazzling Young Aerialist?Daughter of Unus the Great?Makes Her Sensational Debut as a Circus Headliner

Pg… 53 The Used–To–Be Ustinov: Now in the Flower of Middle Age, the Satirist–Actor–Director Recalls that at the age of 6 He was an Automobile

Pg… 63 Twin–Rideen Classroom: Oh, the Confusion of Trying to Teach Seven Sets of Little Look–Alikes!

Pg… 66C U.S. Fashion Bargains: European Models Try Them?and Love Them

Pg… 72 At Last, Cleopatra!: The Longest, Costliest and Most Jinxed Film is Finally Finished, and the Man Who Knows Tells of the On–Screen and Off–Screen Epic that Does Beat All

Pg… 85 Vaccine for Measles: Now You Can be Immunized Against an Underrated Killer

Pg… 88 Mary Hemingway in Africa: The Novelist's Widow Goes for Big Game and Evokes Poignant Memories of the Land She and "Papa" Loves. By Mary Hemingway

Pg… 101 The World of Orchids: Color Pictures of Exotic Plants that Bloom in an Almost Infinite Variety of Shapes and Hues. Photographed for LIFE by Alfred Eisenstaedt. Mystery Writer Rex Stout Tells Why Nero Wolfe Like Them

Pg… 110 Miscellany: Dandy Duck's Dashing Hairdo

Pg… 4 Editorial: "The Future Is Ours"?Pope John XXIII

Pg… 12 LIFE Guide: How to Get Bow Legs on a Dude Farm and Coax Stubborn Trout

Pg… 19 On a Hot Line, Who's Central?: An Exploration of the Problems and Pitfalls of a New Status Symbol. A Special Report by Paul Mandel

Pg… 23 Letters to the Editors

Pg… 26 Jackie Growing Up: Album of the Sunny Young Lifetime of the First Lady, Who is Expecting Her Third Child

Pg… 34 First View of the Bali Volcano: The Surging Flow of Lava as Recorded by Our Photographer

Pg… 36 Adenauer at Bay: The Predicament of the Great Chancellor with a Distaste for All Successors

Pg… 38 The Football Gamblers: Pro Stars Hernung and Karras are Fired

Pg… 43 Watch Out for Tainted Tuna: The Government Tracks Down the Poisonous Cans

Pg… 49 The Frisky White Kangaroos: Remarkable Pictures of a Rare Animal

Pg… 58 Lovley Girls in Water: A Color Essay by Don Ornitz

Pg… 68A Art Inside Art: A Collector Specializes in Curious Double Takes

Pg… 73 A Crucial School Row: Paradise, Calif. Splits Asunder Over a Teacher Who Believes in the Classroom as a Free Market Place of Ideas. A Student Tries to Trap Her with a Hidden Tape Recorder. Photographed for LIFE by Bill Ray

Pg… 86 Matinee Idol Any Minute: The Rise and Shine of Robert Goulet. By Dora Jane Hamblin

Pg… 97 Perils of Wearing a Coronet: A Young British Honorable Miss Writes a Provocative Book About Life Among the Island's Gentry

Pg… 101 Mysterious Maya: a 1,300–Year–Old Skeleton Poses a Riddle of the Past

Pg… 107 Bardot's Own Bowler: A French Symbol Tries on a Cross–Channel Symbol and Starts a Fashion Fad

Pg… 110 Miscellany: Pilloried Pup