LIFE

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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

See the world
4
Travel
Doc, we've two frozen men
14
Frostbite
Aboard the new beauty of the seas
20
Ocean liners
Storm-tossed trip and party-tossing arrival
26
Dora Jane Hamblin; 1920-1993
Great spy swap
30
Rudolf I. Abel; 1902-1971, Francis Gary Powers; 1929-1977, Espionage, Spies
Old star finder's latest discovery
41
Irina DEMICH
Playing possum for fifty years
45
Opossums
Grand finale of a fabulous handout
50
Samuel H. Kress Foundation
Kiss that breaks up Rock
65
Rock Hudson; 1925-1985
Now the President will decide on his own
70
John Fitzgerald Kennedy; 1917-1963, Nuclear weapons (Testing, Suspension), Presidents (Powers and duties)

Bridge where secret meeting took place
32
James B. Donovan; 1916-1970

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