Monday, Nov. 16, 1959

Every big story produces its black headlines and its clattering bulletins, but the heart of the matter almost always lies at a deeper level. Getting to that meaningful depth is business. Some cases in point in this week's issue:

OUT of the pall of concern over Russia's space achievements, over TV's morals, and the obduracy of both sides in the steel strike, a new public issue is coming into focus in the U.S. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The Issue of Purpose.

FOR a while after the first Sputnik soared aloft two years ago, all Soviet scientists suddenly became ten feet tall, with brains to match. Since then, U.S. scientists have flocked to Russia and under the rules of the current thaw, have seen things that no Westerner had ever seen before. Interviewing the returnees produced a calm, post-panic assessment of just how good (and how backward) Russia's science is. See SCIENCE, Scouting the Russians.

BEHIND the anti-American violence in Panama lie history, emotions, economics and politics, stretching all the way from the day in 1903 when Panama became a nation to the day in 1960 when its voters will elect a new President. See HEMISPHERE, "Puzzling" Affair.

IN the most shocking spectacular that TV had ever produced, a congressional subcommittee learned the appalling story of the big quiz fixes from a parade of witnesses. As the testimony poured out, it became clear that TV's trouble is much deeper than the fixes. See SHOW BUSINESS, The Ultimate Responsibility.

CHARLES REVSON, president of Revlon, Inc., stepped briefly into the public eye as he appeared before the congressional subcommittee investigating the rigged TV shows, which included two that he sponsored. While Charlie Revson is little known to TV viewers, he is recognized in his own circle as a man who makes Madison Avenue tremble and his competitors writhe with fury. See BUSINESS, The Unflabbergasted Genius.

FEW forms of entertainment have raised more eyebrows than French movies. Now the old spice is coming in a new flavor--frankly sexy, often amoral, but invariably hewed close to ugly, beautiful realities. See CINEMA, New Wave.

IT is the most important thing that has happened in treatment of the mentally ill in our lifetimes," says one of the nation's leading mental-hospital administrators about a revolutionary trend in his field. For a behind-the-walls report, see MEDICINE, Open Door in Psychiatry.

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