"THOSE perplexing Argentines," U.S. -Ambassador James Bruce cried when he returned from Buenos Aires in 1949. The Argentines love soccer, bathtubs, the opera and gastronomy (even for a pretty senorita their customary compliment is: "What a pudding!"). They will not stand for traffic lights, and their stately capital has none. For a flamboyant decade the proud and cultured Argentines were ruled by a wastrel dictator. Now the bill has been presented, and a grim-lipped general who prizes honor and uprightness is struggling to repay the account. See HEMISPHERE, The Rocky Road Back.

EVER since the first H-bomb explosion (TIME, April 12, 1954), the world has become increasingly worried about the effect of radioactive fallout on the health of the human race. The question of stopping or limiting the testing of nuclear weapons is not purely scientific. It is also a military and moral problem, but most of the pertinent facts are scientific. For the opinions of the world's scientists on this disquieting matter, see SCIENCE, How Dangerous Are the Bomb Tests?

NO one in Washington's budget squabble has had more to lose than Vice President Richard Milhous Nixon. No one could hang out a better excuse for sidestepping the issue. But rather than dodge, Nixon has dived head-on into the battle, and in the process has been more than willing to cut loose whatever conservative Republican ties he had. Waiting to pick up what Nixon casts off is a conservative champion named William Fife Knowland, the Old Guard's candidate for President in 1960. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, Nixon on the Line and Knowland at the Ready.

On Capitol Hill, Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson and House Speaker Sam Rayburn head what appears to be a serene Democratic household, sitting by comfortably while the Republicans spat. But west of the Potomac, Democrats are becoming the party of bitterness, much of it directed squarely at the congressional leadership's budget feud with Eisenhower. For a fresh political survey, see NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The Democratic Split.

THE trouble with general managers I is that they never went to college. They cheat on bonuses, cheat on anything." The angry man is the University of Texas' Baseball Coach Bibb Falk, onetime Chicago White Sox outfielder; the objects of his rage are the major leagues, particularly the fast-talking scouts who circle the campuses and lure away the best college baseball players with sweet talk and bonuses. It not only hurts college baseball, argue Bibb and other college coaches, but also hurts the young men who are wooed away. For their reasons, see SPORT, Blame It on the Majors.

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