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A Letter From The Publisher, Nov. 2, 1959

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The five Ws and the H—Who, What, Where, When, Why and How—make up a time-honored formula for the contents oj a good news story. In the crush oj reporting the news every hour on the hour, or every day by the day, one—and perhaps the most important one—oj the Ws is often slighted. Each week TIME gives intense attention to that one—the Why.

WHY is Adlai Stevenson, although twice defeated as a Democratic candidate for President, in a strong position to get the 1960 nomination? See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The Waiting Game.

WHY is the U.S. space program still in deep and serious trouble? See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The Prematurely-Grey Mare.

WHY did such anti-Communist nations as Britain, France, Spain and Portugal abstain from condemning Red China’s suppression of Tibet? See FOREIGN NEWS, The Patient One.

WHY does De Gaulle want to wait till spring for a summit? See FOREIGN

WHY were two young idealists, helpers in Fidel Castro’s drive to power in Cuba, willing to risk prison and death to fight their old comrade-at-arms? See THE HEMISPHERE, No Time for Tourists.

WHY does the President of Brazil believe his country can be the world’s fourth greatest nation in 20 years? See THE HEMISPHERE, J. K. in a Hurry.

WHY does an unsentimental attitude toward a deaf, dumb and blind child make “unforgettable theater?” See THEATER, The Miracle Worker.

WHY did the Army decide to re-evaluate its highly-publicized plan for preserving steaks by irradiation and suspend plans for a $7,000,000 plant?

See SCIENCE, Back to the Laboratory.

WHY was an odd collection of deep thinkers pondering truth in a cornfield last week near Palo Alto, Calif.? See EDUCATION, Time to Think.

WHY has exceptional talent been disappearing from many newspapers’ city rooms? See PRESS, Guest Speaker.

WHY does one of the season’s most successful college football coaches refuse to give his team an oldfashioned, rip-roaring pep talk before the game? See SPORT, The Boys from Syracuse.

WHY did the director of Manhattan’s new Guggenheim Museum flout the wishes of its famed architect-designer, Frank Lloyd Wright? See ART, Last Monument.

WHY did the man who made “banned in Boston” a national label eventually get disgusted with his supposedly proper flock? See MILESTONES.

WHY does a Church of England committee feel that suicide should no longer be considered a felony at law? See RELIGION, Concerning Suicide.

WHY do the Russians claim that they are ahead of the West in an important area of the battle against disease? See MEDICINE, Man v. Viruses.

WHY do the heirs of the great J. P. Morgan chase a widow around Europe and hunt down theater tickets? See BUSINESS, The Big Banker.

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