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LIFE

Front Cover
26 Aug 1957
134 pages
Vol. 43, No. 9
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

Fight for life in cockpit
14
John MCGUYRT, Airplanes (Testing)
Obsessed climbers hack their painful way up the angry Eiger
28
Claudio CORTI, Stefano LONGHI, Mountaineering, Rescue work, Eiger (Switzerland)
Muscat ramble
36
Great Britain (Foreign relations, Oman), Oman
Step forward for civil rights
38
Civil rights
President and Congress
38
Dwight David Eisenhower; 1890-1969, Harold Macmillan; 1894-1986, United States Congress (85th, 1st session: 1957)
Gold rush in the jungle
59
Gold mines and mining (Cameroon)
Pyres for cattle in plague of anthrax
65
Anthrax
Unique tour of San Simeon
68
William Randolph Hearst; 1863-1951, Hearst-San Simeon State Historical Monument (Calif.), Art (Collectors and collecting)
Peacemaking priest in gangland
89
Chauncie Kilmer MYERS, Gangs, New York (N.Y.) (Social conditions)
Town playing a part
97
Motion picture production and direction, Camden (Me.)

Polish tram strike runs off the tracks
43
Strikes (Poland)
Living doll of the wilds
44
Jim Dorothy BROWN
Hospital finished but too broke to open
46
Hospitals (Finance), Barstow (Calif.)
No. one Braves and new no. one Brave
51
Red Schoendienst SCHOENDIENST, Baseball
Twining tradition
104
Nathan F. Twining; 1897-1982, Twining family
Grand season for Shakespeare
124
William Shakespeare; 1564-1616 (Staging and acting of plays), Shakespeare festivals
Big barbecue for a giant steer
131
Barbecue cooking

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