Getting the real story of what's going on in the world is somewhat like drilling for oil -- the principal occupation of this week's cover subject. In either field, whatever is worth finding is almost always beneath the surface and is often discovered in the most unlikely places. Some examples of where news was found for this week's TIME:

-- In the femurs of a high-G mouse. See SCIENCE, High-G Life.

-- In the B.C. diet of Yemenite Jews. See MEDICINE, Jews & Disease.

-- In the boudoirs of Victorian ladies. See BUSINESS, The Diplomats of Oil.

-- In a promised presidential legacy. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, One-Third & One.

-- In the psyches of some human whales. See SPORT, The Angry Whales.

-- In the gem box of William Randolph Hearst. See PRESS, Cutting the Chain.

-- In some people's emotional need for big closets. See ART, Crazy Hat, Bright Tie.

-- In "a mental and spiritual striptease." See EDUCATION, A Teacher Speaks.

-- In the familiar odor of oats. See SHOW BUSINESS, The Season.

-- In a highly improbable combination of genes. See BOOKS, Episco-pophagous Frogman.

-- In the theological principles of a man hanged 15 years ago by Nazis. See RELIGION, Theologian of Life.

-- In a milewide meringue. See CINEMA, Pollyanna.

-- From a knock-kneed Brownie scout. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, Vive Chicago!

-- From the Himalaya shadows. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The Student King.

-- In an avalanche of hospital bills. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, Medical Aid for the Aged.

-- In the pins stuck through the eyes of a Prime Minister. See FOREIGN NEWS, Upside Down.

-- On top of the world's highest mountain. See FOREIGN NEWS, The Rock of Difference.

-- From a showman who thinks that the way to evoke the idea of gunshot is to fire a gun. See Music, Ring Dem Bells.

-- In a wooden cross on an empty lot. See FOREIGN NEWS, The Cross at Marx & Lenin.

-- In the hold of Cleopatra. See FOREIGN NEWS, Troubled Waters.

-- In the streets of a city groaning with morning-after hangovers. See THE HEMISPHERE, "You'd Better Show Up."

-- In a tin can full of metal shavings. See THE HEMISPHERE, Life Begins at 30.

-- From a man who doesn't know he's 85. See PEOPLE.

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