IT used to be frequently said by us that TIME brings all things.

We don't say so as often any more, but it still does. And this week the range is from taxes (on the cover) to forgetfulness in the Caribbean.

In eight water-splashed pages of color, TIME tours the sun, scuba and surf spots, and in accompanying text sorts out the places for those who want shopping, gambling, nightclubbing, and those who only want to be within earshot of a whispering palm. From the shivering north of Manhattan two teams went reconnoitering in the sun--one to the northern islands, from the Bahamas to the Virgins, the other down the stepping stones of the Leeward and Windward Islands to Trinidad. Correspondents Ed Reingold and Kenneth Froslid and Photographer J. Alex Langley did the first, and Rosemary Frank and Carl Mydans the second. They came back talking of their struggles in renting Jeeps, planes, sailboats and motorboats to make their rounds, and insisting on what a hard job it was to investigate the soft life. They got little sympathy in New York except when describing the process of taking aerial photographs by leaning out the open door of a small plane as it made tight turns.

The places they liked are described in Modern Living; but the resort where, says Froslid, the cockroaches were so numerous that they had their own steel bands, is passed over in silence.

A REFERENCE to the expenses thus incurred in looking over those $90-a-day Caribbean resorts might be one way to lead up to discussing the cover story on Tax Collector Mortimer Caplin. A more discreet way is to tell of another TIME correspondent at work, this one in Charlottesville, Va. A dean was telling him that Professor Caplin's taxation course was popular but hard, and that no one--including Bobby Kennedy--had taken the course just to get an easy grade. Well, then, what grade did Caplin give Bobby? "Fine, I'll get that for you," said the dean. He asked his secretary to bring in the Attorney General's file, looked frowningly at it, and said: "We hadn't better give that out. Suffice to say it wasn't one of the better marks."

THE Caplin cover story and the Caribbean color pages are TIME specials. But in carrying out its job of bringing all things, TIME hopes to provide in every section unfamiliar nuggets of information, unexpected turns of phrase, news that informs and judgments that enlighten. We single out three unusual stories in this week's issue:

In Religion, the evidence that shows that the great postwar religious revival is over.

In Education, the story of how France turns out its relentlessly trained elite of scientists, teachers, engineers and civil servants at a handful of super-universities, hard to get into, hard to stay in, and hard to beat.

In Medicine, the story of how a small-town doctor in Missouri diagnosed his son's illness by reading a letter from him, and saved his life.

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