THE difference between the headlines on the Supreme Court's historic decisions and the thousands of words of the rulings themselves was the difference between instinctive applause for the principle of civil rights reasserted and sober second thought about actual results achieved. All told, the opinions documented the new concept of the court's functions as laid down by Chief Justice Earl Warren. TIME this week sets forth the gist of the decisions, analyzes their individual and collective importance, notes the dissents and feeling of dismay, and brings a reminder that the court is composed of men. See the first six pages of NATIONAL AFFAIRS.

EVEN by the Soviet Union's own definition of aggression," Russia's "massive armed intervention" in Hungary is a matter for international concern, concluded a lucid and devastating U.N. committee report. The headlines told of brutality condemned, but the real fascination of the 150,000-word report is the story of how Russia coldly provoked the uprising it intended to crush, and ruled through a Premier held prisoner. See FOREIGN NEWS, Indictment for Murder.

YEARS ago, before crushing income taxes, a Wall Street customer's man shrewdly invited a prospective client out to his yacht club, and there, so goes the story, proudly pointed out a dazzling harbor filled with his and other stockbrokers' yachts. "Mighty fine," said the dubious client, "but where are the customers' yachts?" As of last week, with 30 million Americans sailing almost 6,000,000 boats of all kinds in the greatest boating boom of all time, Wall Street's customers--along with U.S. butchers, bakers and candlestick makers--had enough yachts to swamp Wall Street's navy and dot every U.S. shoreline from California to Maine. How did the boom grow and what is the U.S. boating industry, already awash with prosperity, doing to keep up with a market that will grow to $1.5 billion this year? See BUSINESS, Down to the Sea.

IN Paris French art critics, who are inclined to sniff at American taste, were wide-eyed and rams last week over the collection of an American--and an American banker, at that. Hit of the Paris season is the Orangerie des Tuileries exhibit of a masterpiece-studded collection lent by Manhattan's Robert Lehman. Delighted Paris art lovers and tourists swarmed to the exhibit by the thousands; even the exhibition poster (see cut) became a collector's favorite. One French connoisseur was heard to exclaim, "We never dreamed that anybody in America had a collection so wonderful, so well selected, so indicative of a really superior taste in art." For the story of the limelight-shunning banker-collector who brought off the show, see ART, An American in Paris.

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