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LIFE

Front Cover
4 Jun 1956
166 pages
Vol. 40, No. 23
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

What on earth do they all see?
24
Orangutans, Theater (Marketing)
Noisy words fired in anger
36
United States (Armed Forces)
Case in point, the Nike battle
41
Guided missiles
Awesome sight at Bikini overshadowing the row
42
Hydrogen bombs (Testing)
Needless tragedy of Cyprus
48
Cyprus
City and temple
82
Temples (Mesopotamia)
Twilight of Sumer
95
Civilization, Assyro-Babylonian, Ur (Ancient city)
Small zoo for small fry
105
Wildlife (Capture)
Redlegs flex their big batting muscles
113
Baseball, Baseball players
Rich look, home-sewn: Lilion
121
Textile fabrics

Let's get action on atomic power
48
Robert McKinney; 1910-2001, Nuclear energy (International aspects)
End of a winged man
53
Leo VALENTIN, Parachuting
Escaping Czech steam
54
Czech students
At end of long trail, a last primary pitch
56
Estes Kefauver; 1903-1963, Adlai Ewing Stevenson; 1900-1965, PRESIDENTIAL campaigns (1956)
Good young king in Nepal
61
Mahendra Bir Bikram Shaha Deva (Maharajadhiraja of Nepal); 1920-1972, Nepal
Housewives on housing
65
Houses, Homemakers
Trapeze
75
Motion picture reviews (Single works)
Coming of civilization
80
Sumerians
Pittsburgh painter's jocose jam-up
125
David Gilmour Blythe; 1815-1865
Pinocchio preserved
127
Monuments, Collodi (Italy)
Recalling a great past in Russia
132
Moscow (Russia) (Theater)
Chekhov and fine manners
136
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (Russian dramatist and short story writer.); 1860-1904
Shotgun pollinization
141
Fertilization of plants
Leaders behind Algeria's rebellion
146
Algeria (Politics and government)
Nassau's reunion in Nippon
163
Yoshio OSAWA, Foreign visitors (Japan)

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