1956/07/23 -- Cover features The Battle of Buena Vista by Chamberlain

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

  • G.O.P. Smiles Widen With Ike's Decision
  • A Look at the World's Week
  • Anguish Cruelly Compounded - The Mother of a Kidnapped Baby Is Tortured by the Hoaxers
  • Greeks Mourn 54 Dead in the Aegean
  • Sights and Smells of Moscow - A Visitor's Report By the Chief of TIME-LIFE Washington Bureau
  • 5,000 Girls Scouts Rough It on First National Roundup at a "Primitive Encampment"

    • EDITORIALS:

  • The U.S. Spirit: A Moral Creed
  • The U.S. Spirit: A Will to Risk

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Everybody Gets In the Acting: Five Amateur Productions Of the Same Play in Five Cities Show How Footlight Fever is Sweeping the U.S. -- Photographed for LIFE by Yale Joel

    • ARTICLE:

  • "My Confession" - The First of Three Installments on the Romantic Mexican War Memoirs of a Solider-Artist

    • RELIGION:

  • Cutting into Cryptic Copper - A Professor Saws Secrets Out of the 2,000-Year-Old Dead Sea Scrolls

    • FASHION:
    Mad Hats for Elegantly Simple Fall Dresses

    MEDICINE:

  • Artificial Suns for Surgery at St. Lo

    • ANIMALS:

  • New Deal for a Rare Seal

    • SPORTS:

  • A 'Copter Ride in a Motorless Boat

    • ART:

  • A Cast Lady Cast Off - Texas Bank Rejects Zorach's Sculpture

    • MILITARY AFFAIRS:

  • Fraternity of Valor - Britain Honors Holders of 100-Year-Old Victoria Cross

    • PARTY:

  • Fifth and Last in LIFE's Series on How to Give Children's Parties Tells Parents to Let 15-Year-Olds Run Their Own Show

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Speaking of Pictures: Castles in the Sand of Italy
  • Letters to the Editors
  • Sequel: A Black Friday for Whoopers
  • Miscellany: Cow's Tongue ina Tap