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bungry Russia on the eve of the Paris summi. The high-flying U-2, supposedly beyond the range of Red antiaircraft rockets.
was interrupted by rocket or engine failure in its reconnaissance "overflight" at Sverdlovsk and turned up in pieces in Moscow.
The plane'! highly successful five-year spying program was exposed and Powers became the first man since Nathan Hale pub
licly acknowledged by his country as a spy. This incident and the bungled U.S. cover-up attempt were major diplomatic defeat
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JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY aged 43, 27 years younger than his predecessor defeated Vice Pres
ident Nixon with the smallest margin of popular votes in this century to win the presidency. Kennedy,
who laid during the arduous campaign that he would bring marked change to the White House, won in
an election heavily weighted with imponderables. Any of several factors could be cited as decisive in
his victory his Roman Catholic religion, the Negro vote, Lyndon B. Johnson's campaign role. In any
vent, Kennedy approached the most powerful post In the Free World in challenging circumstances.
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world stage from Moscow to Paris to New York, acting his
big part with a flourish. A ranting, insulting Khrushchev
collapsed the Paris summit, above, in a fit of anger over the
U-2. This mood dissolved into affability as he Dear-hugged
Cuba's brother-in arms Castro at the New York U.N. meet
ing. He finished up with table-pounding act (fist and shoe).
DICK AND PAT NDCON were tense u returns Election Day indicated the winning trend to Kennedy. But
the rice president emerged from the voting in better shape than most defeated candidates. He seems the
mua Mag Between the reactionary (Goldwater) and liberal (Rockefeller) wings of the party and as such
tts best hope for '64, President Elsenhower bowed out of active political life with a flourish of 11th hour
Helping or Niton He remained the Republicans' most compelling figure by far even though not
fjiM sale stt transfer this image to the vice president The election was not a personal repudiation.
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AMERICA DEVELOPED HER NEWEST and probably greatest deferent
to surprise attack, the submarinefired Polaris, intermediate range ballis
tic missile. It makes the sub a moving, nearly undetectable, launching pad
for the nuclear weapons. Ninety per cent of Russia's cities are vulnerable.
THE RED SEA, NILE RIVER and the Mediterranean
Sea (top) are all shown in this remarkable photo
graph transmitted from space to receiving station
on earth by the Tiros weather satellite. The 270
pound U.S. satellite, one of the most complex elec
tronic packages orbited, gave an inkling of future
eyes in the sky which would not only relay weather
information but also be military observation stations.
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EARTHQUAKES, TIDAL WAVES, FLOODS, volcanic eruptions, disease and starvation
tortured the people of Chile in a catastrophe of Biblical proportions. Five thousand per
sons were killed snd 500,000 made homeless. Whole cities collapsed, Islands vanished and
volcanoes were born in the most severe quakes ever recorded. Here dated survivors pick .
through the rubble of Lota looking for their possessions. Nature's assault on Chile was
powerful message that her forces are not yet subject to man. Rebuilding has only begun.
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MOVEMENT TO ABOLISH capital punishment was
given impetus when Caryl Whittier Chessman was
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Calif., at 10:12 a.m., May 2, 1960, 12 years after his
conviction for kidnap-rape. In that 12 years, Chess
man wrote four books and made scores of appeals
to various courts, including 16 to the U.S. Supreme
Court. After it was over a six-foot cross by U.S.
Consulate in Basle, Switzerland, said: "Peace to
Chessman's soul, but none to his executioners."
MOST DRAMATIC NEWS PICTURE of the year
shows 18-year-old Japanese fascist Otaya Yamaguchi
after he pulled a foot-long hamurai swora irom ine
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