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LIFE

Front Cover
31 Jan 1955
108 pages
Vol. 38, No. 5
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

Speaking of pictures
4
Spike Jones JONES
As five lives hung in the balance
17
Prisoners, Boston (Mass.) (Prisons)
First photographed press conference
22
Press conferences, Journalism, Television broadcasting (Government)
Under way on nuclear power
24
Nuclear submarines
Crisis of free China
29
China (History, Civil War, 1945-1949), Taiwan (Defenses), United States (Foreign relations, China)
Hand with mechanical grip
50
Handicapped (Equipment)
Love on a late show
55
Gloria PALL, Television program reviews
Vanished splendor of Russia
60
Alexander II (Emperor of Russia); 1818-1881, Coronations
Cram camp for skiers at Sun Valley
69
Skiing
Great star ages gracefully
77
Spencer Tracy

Explosive incident in a sputtering war
30
Costa Rica (Politics and government)
Napoleonic tiara is torn up
45
Crown jewels, Emeralds
America triumphs at Bangkok fair
46
Fairs
Moslems in the melting pot
88
Muslims (Soviet Union), Uzbeks
Horse doping, still a blot on racing
92
Horse racing, Horses
Tito takes in a tiger hunt
106
Josip Broz Tito; 1892-1980, Foreign visitors (India)

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