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LIFE

Front Cover
21 Sep 1959
174 pages
Vol. 47, No. 12
ISSN 0024-3019
Published by Time Inc
LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.
  

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Contents

Spoof of spelunking in newly found caves
12
Caves
Squaresville U.S.A. vs. Beatsville
31
Beat generation, Hutchinson (Kan.), Los Angeles (Calif.)
First photo of U.S.S.R.'s no. 1 family
38
Khrushchev family
Home shimmy shakes a town
50
Malden (Mass.)
Russians open up to American guides
57
American National Exhibition (Moscow, Russia: 1959), Soviet Union and the United States
Sox, hitless but hot
121
Baseball
Modest man behind it all
124
Al Lopez; 1908-.
Photographer's warm, vivid images of history
131
Photography, Journalistic, World War, 1939-1945 (Photographs)
Seven brave women behind the astronauts
142
John Glenn; 1921-., Astronauts
There are no dark feelings
146
Malcolm Scott CARPENTER

Rare showing of The Robe
67
Cathedrals (Germany (West)), Holy Coat
Pillow talk
73
Motion picture reviews (Single works)
Ebullient artist from Japan
79
Shiko Munakata (Japanese artist.); 1903-1975
Trapp family and Mary
87
Mary Martin; 1913-1990, Trapp family, Theater (Production and direction)
Noble Hudson: river of history
90
Hudson River valley (N.Y. and N.J.)
Crucial role in a continent's growth
103
United States (History)
Blithe spirit is gone
111
Kay Kendall
Just go right ahead
150
Alan B. Shepard (Jr.)
I guess I will worry
152
Gus Grissom; 1926-1967
I want to watch it go
157
Leroy Gordon COOPER (jr)
Maybe I've been lucky
158
Wally Schirra (American astronaut.); 1923-2007
I have never been nervous
160
Donald Kent Slayton; 1924-1993
Sandburg visits Swedish kinfolk
169
Carl Sandburg; 1878-1967

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