WHEN the most paradoxical prelate of his day arrived in Rome last week, TIME'S Vatican Correspondent William Rospigliosi was so eager to see him that he all but climbed a wall of the visitor's residence to get a glimpse. Next day Rospigliosi saw Poland's Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski closer up for a background talk. From Warsaw two TIME correspondents relayed their findings on the publicity-shy cardinal to the Bonn bureau, which incorporated exhaustive research among Polish refugees in Germany. In Pittsburgh TIME'S correspondent interviewed U.S. travelers who had recently seen Wyszynski. Result: the first comprehensive story on the man whose experiment in coexistence brought religious freedom to Poland and probably saved the country from Hungary's fate. See RELIGION, Cardinal & the Commissar.

MURDERED! cried the Union Leader of Manchester, N.H. "Write your Congressman," suggested the Daily News of Chicago. In their vastly differing fashions, two Republican newspapers illustrated their Republican publishers' dissatisfaction with the Republican President of the U.S. Beyond that the similarity stopped. Union Leader Publisher William Loeb is a splenetic individualist for whom the description reactionary seems inexact. Daily News Publisher-Editor John S. Knight is a man of calmer mien whose estrangement from President Eisenhower is more restrained and at the same time more significant. For a report on two noteworthy journalists, see PRESS, Thunder on the Right and "That Stinking Hypocrite."

WHEN Barbara Louise Smith, 19, a music major at the University of Texas, was asked to quit the leading role in the school opera because she is a Negro, she made headlines across the land. But the reaction of her fellow Texans proved that integration has made bigger strides than Barbara--or anyone else--realized. See EDUCATION, The Eyes of Texas.

THE most shameful moment of national life in Latin America comes when a military dictator strikes out the nearly standard constitutional provision forbidding a President to succeed himself, and prolongs his own term. When that moment came last week in Colombia, civilians--students, bankers and priests--told the strongman to go. For the intimate story, see HEMISPHERE, The Strongman Falls.

THE newest recipe for coq au vin:

"Soak freeze-dried chicken breasts in four times their weight of vin ordinaire. Wait (about 30 minutes) until all wine is absorbed. Then . . ." But first, see SCIENCE, Freeze-Dried Food.

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