Life Magazine, October 17, 1960 - Henry Cabot Lodge and wife Emily

Neat two page photo of a parade of the 1961 model cars spiraling down a ramp at Detroit's Cobo Hall. The hot issue of America's vitality, 12 page article about industry, economy and growth. Lawyer Joseph Welch dies at 69. Returning Olympic star Wilma Rudolph gets a rousing celebration in her home town. Photo essay - Lawmakers' wives and kin model elegant US fashions. Full page color Sanka ad with art by John Falter. Photo essay - Henry Lodge's campaign success interrupts a cherished family life. Underwater vigil for a diver's life, David Merwin helped by Donald Raymond. The Big B-70 bomber will be too fast to be caught, too high to be hit, illustrations by Mel Hunter. 10-year-old Darby Collins steels the show at her sister Jane's wedding to John Aurell. Fiber optics launch a new industry, Dr. Walter P. Siegmund, American Optical Company, Corwin Brumley, Bausch & Lomb. Leger Museum open in Biot, France. Charlie Ruggles and Walter Brennan join Debbie Reynolds in a TV dance. Carol Lawrence, after Broadway success, has heartfelt homecoming at her old school, Proviso High School, Melrose Park, Illinois. Revisit to site where 92 Chicago school children died in a fire, Our Lady of Angels School, (see also Dec. 15 1958 issue), Marie Hartman, Patricia Del Debbio, Sister Mary Remi. World Series report : the Pirates and the Yankees, with Mickey Mantle. Young gorillas being raised at Milwaukee Zoo, Terra and Tanga, keeper Lester Bulgrin. Colossal tangle in a tank, funny underwater photo from "Where the Boys Are," Barbara Nichols, Jim Hutton. Mrs. Bobby Dodd feels torn between loyalties as her son's football teach plays against her husband's (U of Florida vs. Georgia Tech). Two page color DeLuxe toys ad for the "Operation X-500" rocket launcher and base toy.