THE story of the South's desegre-- gation is sometimes told in violence and often in warming progress; there is news of legal skirmishes and noise of rebel yells. But mostly, there is a story of individuals--white and black, leaders and followers. TIME has recorded this story week by week, and also turned the spotlight on its leaders: on Negro Lawyer Thurgood Marshall (Sept. 19, 1955), who did much to win a major battle for his people before the Supreme Court, and on Mississippi's Senator James O. Eastland (March 26), whose tradition and training have set him against integration every step of the way. This week, in writing of Montgomery's Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., TIME examines a turn in the struggle that neither Lawyer Marshall nor Senator Eastland could have predicted, and measures the effect that one Negro minister's faith has had on the people around him, white and black. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The Attack on Conscience.

ONE cannot drink a glass of beer without its dilution in Handel's Water Music," Author-Critic Jacques Barzun wrote recently, in describing the amazing musical saturation of the U.S. atmosphere. This week Piano Virtuoso Artur Rubinstein (see PEOPLE) enthusiastically echoes Barzun's point that "in spite of our perennial croaking about America's neglect of the arts, the country spends more money for music than the entire rest of the world." Since the hi-fi revolution, a growing slice of that money has been spent on records, which have created a magnificent "concert hall without walls" not only for the classics but for the moderns. TIME'S Music editor listens to the vinyl outpourings, from two dozen record companies, selects the best and most interesting items for review about once a month. This week's group ranges from Mozart to that aging musical bad boy, Henry Cowell. See Music, New Records.

ONE of the most amazing true stories about the labyrinthine ways of the human mind concerns a woman known as Eve White, who went Jekyll and Hyde one better by having three distinct personalities, and changing from one to another with dramatic abruptness. Her case history, fragments of which appeared in 1954 before her treatment was concluded, is now fully told by her two psychiatrists. See MEDICINE, All About Eve.

THE recurring pattern of bloody revolt in French colonies from Indo-China to North Africa has sometimes suggested that France, like her Bourbon kings, has "learned nothing and forgotten nothing." Last week, as evidence to the contrary, France acted to forestall future Algerias, by launching a new deal in "Black Africa"--the little-known French domain that sprawls all the way from below the Equator to the Sahara. See FOREIGN NEWS, Timely Token.

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