IN Africa to watch the birth of the new nation of Ghana, Vice President Richard Nixon paused between ceremonies to greet another observer from home. To Montgomery, Ala.'s Rev. Martin Luther King, the Vice President remarked : "I recognized you from your picture on the cover of TIME . . . That was a mighty fine story about you." The two promised to meet again in Washington, and Nixon went about the vice-presidential business of winning African friends for the U.S. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, With Pat & Dick in Africa.

AS the headlines told it, the story of congressional debate on the Eisenhower Doctrine was a step-by-step battle over phrases. With the doctrine passed, the story is something far bigger: the story of a historic step in U.S. foreign policy that began with a scribble on a yellow scratch pad. It is told exclusively in NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The Eisenhower Doctrine.

THE big shift in U.S. spending abroad is to the East: Europe which four years ago got 66% of U.S. foreign aid now gets 8%; Asia gets most of the rest. For the reasons why, see FOREIGN NEWS, Where the Money Goes.

NOT satisfied with winning their independence from France and Spain a year ago, some of Morocco's political leaders are agitating to chip off a slice of northwest Africa roughly the size of Western Europe. The land between Morocco and Senegal is mostly sand, but there are underground riches to be tapped. For the story of the rebel leader who hates the French because he was once denied a tax collector's job, see FOREIGN NEWS, Empire of Sand.

DUBLIN'S Ron Delany flows faster than the River Liffey, but not any faster than his competitors make him. That is why the Villanova junior is not only the world's best miler, but also the most exasperating to track buffs, who sense that he can run even faster, and know that he has the stuff to rank among the alltime great runners. See SPORT, Loafing Champion.

NOBODY laughed when TIME'S Montreal Bureau Chief Byron Riggan sat down to relax one night last week after TIME published (in its Canadian edition) his story of a reign of terror in Montreal's tenderloin district, but a couple of people frowned. What bothered Riggan was that the frowning men were standing in his doorway, one of them holding a knife. Angered by the story, the two hoodlums began to beat Riggan, then fled leaving the reporter, only mildly injured, with the always welcome certainty that his reporting had an audience. See PRESS, Reader Response.

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