1956/03/05 -- Cover photograph featuring Kim Novak is credited to Leonard McCombe

Contents of this issue are as follows:
THE WEEK'S EVENTS:

  • The Golden Youth of Communism - An Exclusive Report on a Growing Army of Soviet Scientists - Photographed for LIFE by Edward Clark

  • A Look at the World's Week
  • Despite Arrests Montgomery Negroes Carry On Their Bold Bus Boycott - Includes small photos of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King
  • Greek Voters Stave Off Communist Comeback in Close Win for the West
  • A 16-Story Scoop, World's Largest, Rolls to Work in Ohio
  • Failure of Faith Leads a Florida Faith Healer to Trouble

    • EDITORIAL:

  • The New Communist Line

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAYS:

  • An Age of Guilded Opulence - Part 8 of "America's Arts and Skills" Shows How Vigor Expanded Victorian Taste - Photographed for LIFE by Bradley Smith
  • A Lovely Girl Tries to Catch Up With Her Runaway Career - Kim Novak moves uncertainly in a new world of movie fame - Photographed for LIFE by Leonard McCombe

    • ARTICLES:

  • A Letter to the North - William Faulkner , the South's foremost writer, warns on integration: "Stop Now, for a Moment"
  • The Agonizing Odyssey of Two People in Love - A Young Chinese Couple Battle U.S. Immigration Restrictions for the right to be Together Again by William Brinkley

    • FASHION:

  • Waists at new high: Empire silhouette breaks out again

    • SPORTS:
    Winter diver "saves" himself in an ice-covered lake

  • World champ at last, Skater Carol Heiss cries at Garmisch

    • ANIMALS:

  • Latchkey for bachelor cat leaves Wisconsin owner undisturbed

    • EDUCATION:

  • Westchester Grammar School Dramatists Invent Their Own Productions

    • THEATER:

  • David Wayne as an incorrigible saint in Broadway's new "Ponder Heart" hilariously disrupts a community

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Electronic oracle charts the value of home insulation

    • MUSIC:

  • New teen-tune hits are based on out-of-date styles

    • SCIENCE:

  • A Peeping Tom device makes light of the night

    • TRANSPORTATION:

  • Houston Has a One-Track Hanging Train

    • PARTY:

  • How to Give Children's Parties: Part 2 - Using LIFE's Part Rules, a Connecticut Mother finds way to success is to keep the guests moving - Photographed for LIFE by Walter Sanders

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: A Leap for Life, a Lunge for Lunch
  • Miscellany: Screams in the Sky
  • 2-page color ad -- "Norman Rockwell Says Pan American Was My Magic Carpet Around the World" with 8 small color Rockwell illustrations surrounding the text on the pages