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AMONG the many Americans jolted into action by the Soviet spaceman was Boris Chaliapin, swiftest of TIME'S cover artists. Chaliapin, son of the great Russian basso, has painted some 330 covers for TIME since the summer of 1942, and usually allows himself three days to do a portrait, whether working from his own sketches or from photographs. His most recent feat was painting John XXIII, immediately after his elevation as Pope, in 24 hours for the Nov. 10, 1958 issue of TIME. Last week, when wakened at 8 a.m. on Wednesday and asked to paint Spaceman Gagarin...
Most in the Middle. Research in recent years has shown some fairly clear patterns about where anxiety develops. It is greatest where change is swiftest. Children are not very susceptible to it; their problems of adjustment are normal for their age (adolescents show confusing symptoms). Anxiety is most apparent in the 20-to-40 age group. These youngish adults may not suffer from it more than their elders, but they talk more about it. In any case, they are the most active and mobile members of society, constantly making decisions, changing jobs or moving to new locations. From...
...famine. They believe that the tender shoots and the seeds encourage a vast overbreeding of jungle rats. Once this food supply is exhausted, the rats-many as big as young house cats -assemble and, like a disciplined army, march across paddies and vegetable gardens, eating everything. The broadest and swiftest rivers do not deflect them; as if hypnotized, they plunge into the water, and if not drowned, emerge on the far shore, appetites sharpened...
...Thin. The swiftest and most profitable shift from planes to missiles was made by the Martin Co., simply because it had no choice. It was either that or go broke. When George Bunker, a corporate rescue expert, took over as boss in 1952, the company was deep in the hole (1951 loss: $22 million.). Bunker easily saw that Martin had no future in planemaking. He shifted into missiles and electronics, busily worked to get dozens of Government contracts that looked none too inviting to other companies, because the profit was less than on commercial business. Now Martin has contracts...
...them all, the project that won the swiftest approval-and could do most to knit the Commonwealth together-was a proposal by Canada's Finance Minister Donald Fleming for a globe-girdling communication system linking virtually every Commonwealth land. Stretching from Britain across the Atlantic to Canada and on to New Zealand, Australia, India, Pakistan and Africa, the coaxial cable will join all nations by telephone for the first time. Cost: $246 million. Target date...