This 1962 Life magazine has a cover and article about movie star Rock Hudson; bomb tests cause crisis of conscience; for President Kennedy; a long feature on the luxury passenger ship S.S. France; the Kress family donates $50 million worth of art to American museums, including paintings by Rubens and many other Old Masters, with many illustrations; American pilot Francis Gary Powers is exchanged for Soviet spy Rudolf Abel ; rescue of two frozen men; Darryl Zanuck and newest protegee, Irina Demich; women's fashions become school-girlish; artist Ottmar F. von Fuehrer paints Flippy the porpoise. Robert F. Kennedy receives an honorary doctorate from Nihon University in Tokyo and rare Leadbatter possums.
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