Ask most muscle car enthusiasts to identify the car that kicked off the muscle car era, and they will most likely say it was the 1964 Pontiac GTO and not the 1962 Plymouth Fury Max Wedge. Why? Because ...

Caption from June 8, 1962, issue of LIFE. "What went wrong in the wild stock market and what it means for the U.S."John Dominis—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images It’s probably cold comfort to anyone ...

Not published in LIFE. Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor on the set of Cleopatra, Rome, 1962. There are Hollywood romances, and then there are superstar romances, and no superstar romance ever ...

The short list for the 1962 National Book Award in fiction was remarkable, including a number of works today regarded as classics, like Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates, ...

Despite a series of earthquakes that had ravaged the country, Chile was chosen to stage the 1962 World Cup. Foul play was a feature of the finals, with the most notable victim being Pele, who hobbled ...