6 MONEY TALKS
Wallet and pocketbook tips on how to stretch your buck—plus exclusive new
feature SOMETHING FOR NOTHING.
8 BEHIND THE WHEEL AND UNDER THE HOOD
Helpful info for every man who owns a car.
10 BOUQUETS AND BRICKBATS
A choice selection of pats and pans from our readers.
12 ATTORNEY GENERAL KATZENBACH'S LIFE-AND-DEATH GAMBLE by Mary Koeppel
Shot down by the Nazis, thrown into an Italian P.O.W. camp, almost killed while
trying to bust out, L.B.J.'s two-fisted legal beagle has looked death in the face
more than once—and has yet to flinch when the chips are down.
16 HOW TO HAVE A PLAYBOY SUMMER by Leon Ridgefield
It's not all in knowing where to go to meet the gals—whether its the seashore
or the mountains. Even more important is knowing how to handle yourself in the
clinches.
Special Book Condensation
20 THE LIQUIDATOR by John Gardner
A chill went through Special Agent Boysie Oakes when he heard the words, "You're
operational!" It meant a spy had to be killed —silently and fast—because
that was his job as a professional assassin for his government.
22 NEW NUDE LOOK by 0llie Stewart
Although the law has declared war on topless bathing suits, don't let anyone kid
you—women all over the world have flipped for bare bosom fashions. In fact,
they just might go for the latest craze—birthday suit prancing.
26 AMERICANS WHO BUILT RED CHINA'S A-BOMB by Ed Hyde
BLUEBOOK exposes the American-trained scientists who designed, constructed and
detonated the nuclear device Peking is terrorizing Asia with.
30 120 MILLION SEX "CRIMINALS" by L. E. Owen
Strange as it may sound, nine out of every ten adults in the U.S. today are violating
one or more of the outdated sex laws that can jail more than three-quarters of
the population.
32 DEADLY SEARCH FOR THE THRESHER by Don Reed
In the icy black world 8,500 feet under the Atlantic, where one false move meant
a horrible death, Lt. Comdr. Donald Keach skirted the edge of disaster in the
most dramatic deep-sea mission ever undertaken.
36 MAGNIFICENT MARGARET
BLUEBOOK discovers a 21-year-old beauty who would like to be known as Berlin's
Blonde Bombshell.
40 THE LAST ATTACK OF WORLD WAR II by Kurt Vaughn
For many GI's the final 24 hours were quiet, for millions others there was still
plenty of shooting and dying to be done on that 13th of August, the day before
Imperial Japan surrendered to the Allies.
45 CAMERA CLIX
Our worldwide picture roundup for men.