Life Magazine, December 28, 1959 - At leisure, double issue

Gay old days if High Life - wealthy recreation great illustrations. Automation brings more and cheaper goods and lessens boredom on the job - early computers and robots. Full page color ad for Buick Electra 1960 turbine drive. How two towns spend a day - Concord Mass and Shenandoah Iowa. $40 billion leisure industry by Robert Coughlan. The Great American playground, includes photos of baseball at a hill country school in Kentucky (a 2Neat customer identifies this photo as Shelby Gap), climbers on the top of Mount Goddard in California, hikers in Bryce Canyon in Utah, Bass fishermen off Bull's Island in South Carolina, tubing on the Apple River in Wisconsin, Jeeping in the Colorado Rockies, Scuba divers in Pigeon Cover in Massachusetts, more. Celebrity leisure time - J. Doyle DeWitt, Avard Fuller, David Rose, General Curtis Lemay. Vladmir Nabokov, George Romney, Ralph Bunche, Nelson Rockefeller, Rene D'Harnoncourt, David Dubminsky, James Van Allen, Allen Ellender, Alfred E. Knopf, C.R. Smith, Dinah Shore, How do you rate in the new leisure by humorist Russell Lynes. Americas big playground - fun around the country - photo gallery. Happy idle hours become a rat race by Sloan Wilson. Alabama housewife Mrs. Roberts does civic wonders. Nice feature - Olaus J Murie the naturalist finds fulfillment in wilderness. Albert and Rita Bayer take a helicopter tour vacation. Robert Eskridge of St. Louis shows sensible ways to play with your children. Very funny article about loafing. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Tiulana Visit Florida from their home in Nome, Alaska, adventures and misadventures. Shopping in the future(1975) illustration by Jim Flora.