Nurse Spohranssen treating leper's feet

[Flavio da Silva making his bed, Rio de Janeiro]

[Good luck charms and herbs representing mysticism, on shelf ]

Ringing Machine

[Russian peasant riding a hay wagon in Siberia]

Machine shop in Magnitogorsk, Soviet Union

Village of Zari: fifteen hundred aboriginals gather under a banyan tree for a red flag meeting

[LIFE photographer Margaret Bourke-White (L) with LIFE edit reporter Lee Eitingon, posing in Hindu saris]