IN this age of electronic marvels, everyone is familiar with the way television, the daily newspapers, and newsmagazines such as TIME can quickly round up the impact of an important news event on capitals round the world. This week's special cover on Khrushchev (his tenth appearance on TIME'S cover since 1953), and our related stories on nuclear testing, are distillations of thousands of words filed from Washington, London, Berlin, Moscow, Paris, Belgrade, Delhi and elsewhere.
But this same ingathering process from many sourcesÂso familiar in the handling of crisis events—has also been a longstanding procedure for supplying depth, cross checking and contrast...