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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

Speaking of pictures
8
Ford family
Red China reforms a 2/3-acre landlord
14
Land tenure (China)
New government, new spirit
18
Americans, United States (Politics and government)
Vacation, with stopovers
20
Sir Winston Churchill; 1874-1965
Freeze-out adds tv to three Rs
22
Television in education, Baltimore (Md.) (Education)
Saint is displayed
59
Saint Francis Xavier; 1506-1552
Moulin Rouge
64
Motion picture reviews (Single works)
Rabbits on the rampage in Australia
70
RABBITS and hares
Old pro, new foe, big show, more dough
77
Jack Kramer; 1921-., Frank Sedgman; 1927-., Tennis
New 300-million-year-old clue to evolution
82
James Leonard Brierley SMITH, Coelacanths

Swiss climbers get unparalleled view of Mt Everest, but cannot conquer it
24
Mountaineering, Mount Everest (China and Nepal)
I looked down just before I jumped
28
Alexis GREKOFF, Suicide
Queenly kingfisher
35
Grace Graham VANDERBILT; 3d)
Children's hour
51
Lillian Hellman (American playwright.); 1906-1984, Theater reviews (Single works)
Jamaica boyhood: a memory
89
Jamaica
Top managers in business Cabinet
100
George Magoffin Humphrey; 1890-1970, Charles Erwin WILSON
Life goes to a party for Adlai's sons
114
Balls (Parties), STEVENSON, Adlai Ewing, family

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