If a newsmagazine is to do its full job, it must not merely report the news but must assess what happened and make clear-cut judgments in every field it covers. Some judgments from this week's TIME.

On Tennessee Williams' new play, Period of Adjustment: There is a sense of Williams propelling himself too far in the opposite direction, to trading claws for Santa Claus. See THEATER, New Play on Broadway.

On the crushing of the revolt in South Viet Nam: Tough, zealously anti-Communist President Diem seems to have won out again. But he has not solved the problem of Communist terrorism, he has ruled with rigged elections, a muzzled press and political re-education camps, and his prospering brothers and in-laws are his key advisers. The conditions that brought on the revolt still remain. See FOREIGN NEWS, Revolt at Dawn.

On the "Red summit" meeting in Moscow: Communist leaders from everywhere have been marshaled to reaffirm Soviet supremacy against China's challenge, but China's Mao Tse-tung has deprived Nikita Khrushchev of acquiescence at the one point where acquiescence counts decisively in the Communist faith--at the summit itself. He sent his No. 2 man instead. See FOREIGN NEWS, The Winter-Garden Summit.

On the breakup of the Marilyn Monroe-Arthur Miller marriage: The man who wrote Death of a Salesman seemed simply to have had all he could take, not only of his marriage but of Hollywood to boot. See SHOW BUSINESS, Popsie & Poopsie.

On a new book, A Sense of Values: The latest, 604-page redundancy by Sloan (The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit) Wilson may serve a purpose: to stimulate total disenchantment with the disenchanted novel. See BOOKS, The Disenchanted Forest.

President John Kennedy is likely to find that the old conservative coalition of Republicans and Southern Democrats can muster enough votes in the Congress to keep him from marching toward the New Frontier very fast--and perhaps that is the way the voters intended it. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, How the Vote Broke.

The feeling was growing in the business community that Kennedy is more conservative than he sounded in the campaign. See BUSINESS, The Kennedy Climate.

On Tailback Terry Baker of Oregon State: An ambidextrous, introspective, gangling sophomore who would be one of the most remarkable football players in the game even if he never completed a pass or made a yard on the ground. See SPORT, Thinking Man's Tailback.

On Arthur Koestler's new book, The Lotus and the Robot: His main conclusion--that it is useless to look to Asia for mystic enlightenment and spiritual guidance--runs counter to fashionable Western intellectual longings. See RELIGION, Ex-Commissar v. the Yogis.

On the skill of famed British Accompanist Gerald Moore: He is aware that "there are 20,000 ways of performing one piece," and his volumes and tempi are tailored like a Savile Row suit to the style of the soloist. See Music, Unashamed Accompanists.

Russian dreams of the scientific future are mostly familiar items that long ago lost their power to bedazzle Americans. See SCIENCE, Dull or Concealed Dreams.

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