A Letter From The Publisher, Apr. 29, 1957

JAMES A. LINEN

MOST U.S. citizens regard Canada with an inattentive but warmly sentimental friendship ("They're just like us!") which Canadians find exasperating. Last month Canadian irritation was sharpened by a U.S. Senate report questioning the loyalty of Canadian Diplomat Herbert Norman, Ambassador to Egypt. It turned to nationwide anger when Norman threw himself to death from a Cairo rooftop. Then Canada's own government confirmed part of the subcommittee's assertions. Anger died away, and questions crowded in. Was Norman really a Communist Party member during his student days? Was the Canadian government aware of the extent of his past involvement in Communist-front activities? For some newly revealed facts about Herbert Norman, see HEMISPHERE, The Pearson Case.

IN some circles in Scranton, Pa., talk of sugar in the gas tank or the stench of a stink bomb is likely to evoke gales of laughter. It also evoked interest on the part of Senator John McClellan's labor-rackets investigating committee, which followed its nose to the aroma and found—rotten eggs in Scranton's building-trades and teamsters unions. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The Ungentle Art.

TO most U.S. businessmen, a blackboard is something they once scribbled on, long, long ago in school. But for one U.S. industry, the old blackboard is as necessary as slide rules and secretaries. The industry is electronics, currently the fastest-growing major U.S. industry ($11.5 billion this year), whose brainy young scientist-businessmen sit in air-conditioned offices sipping coffee and chalking abstruse formulas. One of the fruits of their doodles—a new family of miniaturized electronic components to do much of the work of standard vacuum tubes—so fascinated Business Researcher Claudine Tillier and Picture Researcher Christina Pappas, who worked on this week's cover story, that they turned two tiny diodes into a pair of unusual earrings (see cut). For what the electronics men themselves do with their new diodes, and where they hope to go from here, see BUSINESS, The New Age.

ALL this Southern gentleman wanted to do was fish, hunt and watch his cows. But President Eisenhower pressed him once again into service, and South Carolina's longtime Democratic Congressman James Richards ranged into the squalls of the Middle East to measure the free world's friends. For an evaluation of Richards' mission to date, see NATIONAL AFFAIRS, Doctrine's First Fruits.

IS Germany's Ludwig Beethoven the answer to Memphis' "Menace," Elvis Presley? For two enlightened Yalemen's answer to this epic question, see EDUCATION, Combat the Menace!