REBELS, Russians and radiation kept TIME correspondents on the move.

In Havana, Correspondent Bruce Henderson got a vivid account of Dictator Fulgencio Batista's final banquet and ignominious flight, spent four days and sleepless nights putting together a comprehensive report on how and why he fell. For an analysis of what happened in Cuba, and what may happen now, see THE HEMISPHERE, End of a War.

NEWS of Russia's missile triumph came to the U.S. from space on many frequencies, but the man whose job it was to make the most of the new Russian prestige in cold war terms was Mikoyan. On hand to greet him at New York's International Airport was TIME's Veteran Diplomatic Correspondent John Beal. For a report on the impersonal and personal aspects of Russia's big week, see NATIONAL AFFAIRS, Cosmic Challenge, Arrival in the Dark and Visitor from the Kremlin.

THERE'S nothing new to photograph," the AEC said. But Associate Editor Alvin Josephy persisted, visited unclassified laboratories and plants from Massachusetts to California, proved there was plenty going on that had not been seen before. Convinced, the AEC provided clearances for Photographer Jerry Cooke, even volunteered guidance to the U.S.'s most important centers of atomic research and development. The result, despite problems of security ("Don't look at anything on that table, point your camera straight down this aisle") and radiation hazards ("You can stay in this room only 50 seconds"), are first pictures of some of the nation's newest and most significant nuclear developments. See the eight pages of color pictures with the cover story in BUSINESS, The Powerhouse.

ON a recent jeep ride over the narrow new roads that lead part way across the roof of the world, TIME'S New Delhi Correspondent Donald Connery bounced his way to the dot on the map called Sikkim, a never-never land where women sit by the side of the road, breaking big rocks with little hammers, and watch the Mercedes go by. For his report, see FOREIGN NEWS, Land of the Uphill Devils.

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