DANCING may seem a sin to some Christians, but in Asia it is still what it always was -- a way of worship. In six pages of color, TIME looks at the religious dancers of the East, their ups (in Ceylon) and their downs (in India). See RELIGION. Dancing for the Gods.

Few areas of the world have marched so briskly with the news in recent years as the great continent of Africa. Since World War II, five new African nations have achieved independence--some through war and rebellion, others as a result of a policy of enlightened gradualism on the part of their onetime colonial masters. An outstanding example of the second category is the onetime condominium known as the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Next month the Sudan will hold its first general elections since independence was formally achieved two years ago. For a report, see FOREIGN NEWS. Promise on the Nile.

TO 194,618 tourists who visited sun-drenched Nassau last year, mostly from the U.S.. a special charm of the quaint old British colony was the ample corps of cheerful servants. But the black men who drive the taxis and tote the trays of rum punches had their private thoughts about the white minority that runs the island. Last week old resentments exploded into a bitter general strike. For the story of the crippling effect on a tourist economy, see HEMISPHERE. Strike for Power.

FRANCE'S Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres was once described as an artist who painted the beauties of woman "with the keenness of a surgeon, with the humble devotion of a lover." Last week, TIME'S Art editor discovered that one of Ingres' most famed portraits of a woman had been quietly shipped out of France, installed in a Manhattan apartment. For who bought it and how much, see ART, The Last Ingres.

SINCE last July, thousands of scientists in 67 nations, pooling their findings, have been busily examining the sun, the oceans and the polar caps, and closely inspecting the atmosphere above the earth and the mysterious, high-pressure stuff beneath the earth's surface. For an interim report on the International Geophysical Year. see SCIENCE, A Look at Man's Planet.

THE nation's big spotlights are on the ' play between the President and reconvening Congress, but many a promising political career hangs on a similar play between governors and state legislatures around the U.S. One governor who is having it out with his legislature is George Docking, Democratic governor of one of the most Republican of states--Kansas. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS. The Governor Bids a Slam.

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