1956/11/19 -- Cover featuring Wounded Egyptian Solider credited to Burt Glinn

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

  • How the British and French attacked canal -- a small war in the shadow of a big-stick threat - 8 pages of the attack on the Suez Canal
  • A Split-Ticket vote for the historians to explain
  • Lost cause shocks the world - rioters rage at the rape of Hungary
  • After a watch by night, a miraculous mine rescue
  • A Look at the World's Week
  • Celebration for Seretse - Bechuanaland chieftain and his white wife are home again as private citizens
  • EDITORIALS:

  • To the heroes of Hungary
  • What the voters said
  • PICTORIAL ESSAYS:

  • New vistas of the road - in America's matchless autumn panorama a great highway program gathers speed
  • Country Music's prosperity - Photographed for LIFE by Yale Joel - 8 pages of photos, 4 in color. Grand Ole Opry "family portrait" includes Johnny Cash
  • ARTICLES:

  • Names, places, and pay-offs - by Wes Santee. The miler whose suspension brought the year's biggest sports controversy tells of the "brown envelope" system
  • The Curse of Cromwell by Sir Winston Churchill, in "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples" - Eight pages of color on an ardent King's lovely conquests, court and courntry life and the great fire - takes up all or part of 19 pages, several in color
  • SCIENCE:

  • The oldest thing alive - bristlecone pines in California are 4,000 years old
  • ANIMALS:

  • Triple-decker doghouse for some high-living Afghans
  • MOVIES:

  • Fearful female on the run - "Julie" is a terror tale of flight from a fiend
  • AVIATION:

  • Russians build a better chute
  • A Navy balloon's record rise and perilous drop
  • THEATER:

  • Eugene O'Neill 's autobiographical play "Long Day's Journey Into Night" reaches the U.S. stage
  • SPORTS:

  • Soomething had to crack in battle of unbeaten football giants -- Tennessee beats Georgia Tech
  • CLOSE-UP:

  • The hectic daily rat race of Master Cartoonist Herblock
  • FASHION:

  • Men's shirts don bold and colorful fronts
  • PARTY:

  • A Stately welcome to society as Atlanta debutantes make their bow
  • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Speaking of Pictures: Hurdles from on High
  • Letters to the Editors
  • Miscellany: A Squirt for a Squirrel