The fickle cameras and the expectable headlines left a great deal to be said about what went on at Atlantic City. THE NATION says it, with assists from PRESS, MODERN LIVING and SHOW BUSINESS. And while politics seemed to be the mainstream of the news last week, other currents provided much that is significant, fascinating or perhaps just funny. TIME, bringing all things, reports on:

The brutal disorder in South Viet Nam, where three TIME correspondents on the scene reported shocking details of the passion, prejudice, factionalism and subversion behind the new crisis in which the U.S. is so deeply and dangerously involved. See THE WORLD, Anarchy & Agony.

An exiled dictator who may be allowed to go home in the strange role of a conciliator helping to strengthen democracy. See THE HEMISPHERE, The New Peronismo.

Tiw and Mars and Frigg -- as well as Tuesday, who was born on Friday. See PEOPLE.

How the food in U.S. restaurants is going to the dogs. See MODERN LIVING. In the Bag.

A wise mother who calls her five-year-old daughter's artificial hand "the hooker," and wants the child to accept it as that. See MEDICINE, Giving Hope.

Whence come the echoes of "Huh! Huh! Huh! I am the Shadow!", "Hi-Ho Silver" and "On, King, on, you huskies ..." See SHOW BUSINESS, Gothic Revival.

The philosophy that impels a troupe of twelve girls and two nuns who are touring U.S. Army bases in Europe with a show that caused one G.I. to muse: "Only on second thought did you notice that this is a clean show. " See EDUCATION, Learning for Leisure.

The Federal Trade Commission examiner who inveighed against "regimentation of the baseball card-buying public." See THE LAW, The Bubble-Gum Trust.

A girl of 40 who looks no older than the day she was born. See PRESS, Tougher than Hell with a Heart of Gold.

The problem of the "you-who" in the Catholic Church's liturgical translation. See RELIGION, English Mass: Needs Work.

A look into the place where much of the world's weather is being hatched. See SCIENCE, The Best Eye Yet.

A master of jazz who has won a battle with drink, drugs and de- rangement, and is "feeling fine and is ready to play." See Music, Bud's O.K.

How it was that a lot of race horses could catch Gun Bow, "but they was out of breath when they got there." See SPORT, "He's a Freak." How functional form has found new curves to swing by. See ART, Unframed Beauty.

The way automation is taking to drink. See WORLD BUSINESS, Automatic Beer.

What a moviemaker in a matriarchy dares not do. See CINEMA, Mr. First Lady.

Recognition, at last, for the heroic Germans who persistently op posed Hitler. See BOOKS, The Forgotten Few.

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