THE names of the five-star military leaders fill the headlines of history. But the U.S. Foreign Service has a five-star equivalent to the military, and the senior Foreign Service officer is Robert Daniel Murphy, whose profession is preventing trouble--and troubleshooting. In his almost 40 years of diplomatic service, Murphy has been everywhere, done everything, seen everyone. He has developed a charming exterior and a steely interior; he speaks --wherever he is--with the authority of his Government. For what Career Diplomat Murphy has meant and will mean to world politics, see NATIONAL AFFAIRS, Five-Star Diplomat.

ON the lower slopes of the Mount Kilimanjaro that Hemingway celebrated lives a tribe almost unique in Africa--Christian, prosperous (with a $6.000,000-to-$8,000.000 annual coffee crop), and ruled by a British-educated chief known as King Tom. In the land of the Chagga, whites work for the blacks--and both accomplish a lot. See FOREIGN NEWS, "Look What We Can Do!"

AFTER five months' haggling, Western nations slashed from 181 to 118 the number of strategic items which are embargoed to Communist countries. But for all the talk, it's the Communists who do most to hold down the trading. See FOREIGN NEWS, Cutting the List.

WHEN Detroit launched its 1958 models last November, TIME told of the hoopla and hope that attended their introduction in a cover story on Ford Vice President and Style Chief George William Walker, whose smile was as brightly gleaming as the chrome on his cars. But by May. when sales and production turned increasingly sour, so did the faces in Detroit as chronicled in a second cover on the industry's Big Three. With a clink of tools and a clash of cymbals this week, the production lines start up for 1959's new models--cars whose appeal, or the lack of it, will have a telling effect on the course of the U.S. economy. For what the new autos will look like, make by make, how big the market is and how Detroit plans to tap it, see BUSINESS, The New Cars.

IF businessmen studied the new autos with a keen eye, they also looked long at another economic factor to be reckoned with in the months to come: inflation. Everyone hears a lot about inflation; the talk is fraught with semantic difficulties because everyone has a different definition of the word, and thus a different assessment of the danger. For a sensible definition and an idea of how far away the U.S, is from real inflation, see BUSINESS, Inflation: Unlikely.

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