THE handsome new building (right) ' under a brooding Paris sky is the $5,000,000, nine-story TIME & LIFE building on the Avenue Matignon, just off the Champs Elysees. When the building opens this fall, TIME Inc. will occupy the top three floors; the rest of the office space has already been rented, mostly to subsidiaries of U.S. companies.

The lowering sky may come from the fact that the unretouched picture shown here was transmitted last week with the speed of light from Paris to the TIME & LIFE Building in New York City, bouncing off the communications satellite Telstar as it hurried 3,000 miles overhead.

THE sight of husky New York cops ' dressed up as women to decoy nighttime muggers gave Manhattan newspaper feature writers their biggest outing in transvestite humor since Charley's Aunt. But the program, said New York's finest, has paid off with "remarkable success" (see THE NATION). Police Commissioner Michael Murphy was the first to give credit where credit is due: he was merely expanding on an idea tried out in St. Louis that the commissioner read about in TIME just last week.

THIS week it is the Berlin wall. 1 Last week it was the flight of Russia's space twins. Fortnight ago, it was Senator Byrd's family tree. Week after week, Robert M. Chapin Jr. seeks vivid new pictorial ways to illustrate the news. He has been doing it for 25 years for TIME. Beginning as a one-man operation, Chapin now has a staff of six, including Artists Vincent Puglisi and Jere Donovan, to turn out an average of six to eight maps, charts, drawings and diagrams weekly. A few years back, Walter W. Ristow of the Library of Congress declared that "Chapin maps have established a pattern and style for modern newsmagazine cartography," and referred to Chapin as one of the "major pillars" of the craft.

A trained architect (University of Pennsylvania, '33), Chapin decided in the Depression that he would rather be an employed cartographer than a starving architect. He has since been able to combine a little of both interests: he built his own modern hilltop home in Sharon, Conn., and is currently chairman of the building committee for a $1,500,000 improvement of the Sharon Hospital.

On the job, Chapin seeks by graphic inventiveness to "accent the point of a story, not just to produce a reference map." He avidly enjoys charting space exploration, and looks forward to "real detailed maps of the moon to work with."

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