1956/12/03 -- Cover featuring Flag on Sunken U.S.S. Arizona is credited to N.R. Farbman

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

  • Tortured Exodus to Liberty - Thousands of Hungarians Forsake Their Ravaged Homeland
  • A Sudden Snow Snarls the East
  • Shaky Cease-Fire in Egypt
  • A Look at the World's Week

    • EDITORIAL:

  • Toward a Better U.N.

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAYS:

  • The Long Trail to Winter Passage - A Montanan Moves His Herd 60 Stormy Miles
  • Shiny Showplace for Studies - At the Ancient University of Mexico Students Now Work on a Dazzling Campus of Color and Light - Photographed for LIFE by Eliot Elisofon
  • A Stockpile of Might for U.S. in Europe - Photographed for LIFE by Michael Rougier

    • ARTICLES:

  • What Drives Olympic Stars by Marhsall Smith with illustration by Willard Mullin
  • "Day of Infamy" - The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor Reveals How Japanese Admirals, Spies, Airmen and Sailors Sweated Out a Mission to Rock the World by Walter Lord - takes up all or part of 11 pages

    • SPORTS:

  • Old Passer Ha His Fling at Last - Giants Charlie Conerly with some Help Becomes a Football Hero

    • TELEVISION:

  • A High-Living Pooch is a Durable Star - Lassie 's Son, Lassie, Gets $100,000 a Year

    • FASHION:

  • Long, Vivid Wraps Glow on Till Dawn - Photographed for LIFE by Gordon Parks

    • SCIENCE:

  • A Plastic Igloo for an Eskimo
  • African Tribal Tribute to a Great Ethnologist

    • THEATER:

  • Double Helpings of Superb Acting - Leighton and Portman Are Magnificent in Four Roles in "Separate Tables"

    • RELIGION:

  • A Basilica for an Iowa Town - Energetic Congregation in Dyersville, Ohio Beomces a "Pope's Church"

    • BUSINESS:

  • Giveaway Hideaway - A Brewery Offers Cash or Island to a Contest Winner

    • MEDICINE:

  • A New Device Gives Rare, Revealing Look Into a Beating Heart

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • An Eastern Star Looks West - Japan's Most Popular Movie Actress, Machiko Kyo, Reaches the U.S. Screen

    • MOVIES:

  • A Rainmaking Rogue Brings Happiness to All in Fine Film

    • PARTY:

  • Revelry Celebrates a Royal European Match

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Speaking of Pictures: A Birth Under Water
  • Letters to the Editors
  • Miscellany: Restraint of Trade