As TIME'S editors and correspondents gather the week's news, they unearth many an item that might make an "exclusive" headline were TIME a daily newspaper. But TIME, being a weekly, does not make a play for the exclusive story (it might not last); and TIME is not content to deal with mere "headline" items (it's the whole story that counts). Each week TIME'S "front of the book" (NATIONAL AFFAIRS, FOREIGN NEWS, THE HEMISPHERE) deals with stories that have been published in newspapers and broadcast on TV and radio. But much in TIME is new, as, for example, these intimate details from stories in this issue:

sb Enemies of Premier Abdul Karim Kassem, the man who is strategic Iraq's chief bulwark against a Communist takeover, charge that he himself flirted with Communism in his youth. Kassem himself recently told a TIME correspondent: "I don't care about parties . . . They can call us Communists or anything else if they like." Incidentally, the main reason Kassem rides through Baghdad every afternoon is not to receive the applause of the crowds, but to visit his suburban home for a bath: the Defense Ministry, where Kassem sleeps, has no bathroom.

sb Acting Secretary of State Herter was the only one of the Big Four to walk into the foreign ministers' meeting last week with a detailed proposal for the Western position at a summit conference; when the British, French or West Germans argued a point. Herter would ask if they had an alternate suggestion. None had.

sb Secretary of State John Foster Dulles will not make up his mind about resigning until he sees whether he can recover his strength during a leisurely vacation in Florida. Says a close friend: "If he can stand on his feet, he will be at Geneva."

sb The President's nominee for the chairmanship of the Republican National Committee. Kentucky's Senator Thruston Morton, checked with both Nelson Rockefeller and Dick Nixon before agreeing to run, but he has both publicly and privately pledged his support to Nixon in 1960.

sb The U.S. Air Force C-130 that flew the Berlin corridor at 25,000 ft. instead of the usual 10,000 ft. to test Russian reaction had advance clearance from the President. Britain's Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd, in Washington for the NATO meeting, hit the ceiling when he saw press reports of the C-130 flight, snapped questions at Acting Secretary of State Herter at their next meeting, was calmed down when Herter promised to consult him before it happened again.

sb Statehood for an archipelago in the Pacific inevitably raised new hopes on an island in the Caribbean, but Puerto Rico's bear-like Governor, Luis Munoz Marin, sees a future for the island that veers away from statehood and toward a well-padded autonomy from Uncle Sam.

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