EVERYBODY--even the drum patt-er--was plugged in and counting, anxious to see a cooking bird turn green. Suddenly, the orbiting wheel made an eyeball instrumentation and inputted a hold: a ball peen adjustment could mean the difference between a red bird and a green one. What if it turned red? EGADS!

This kind of chatter is everyday lingo to thousands of dedicated missilemen who run the unique Spaceport, U.S.A., at Cape Canaveral, Fla. For a tour beyond the guarded gates of missileland, see NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The Rite of Space.

HITLER claimed the famous century philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche as the philosopher of Nazism. Now, 58 years after Nietzsche's death, a German professor has proven that Nietzsche was grossly misrepresented through a conscious fraud perpetrated by a scheming woman. What Nietzsche really believed and how his views were distorted is reported in FOREIGN NEWS, Her Brother's Keeper.

WHO gets Marilyn Monroe's 10%?

And an equal slice of Kay Kendall, Gregory Peck, Tennessee Williams and a host of other gold-plated names? For new light on the vast organization that collects these tidy percentages, keeps itself in the dark as much as it keeps its clients in the limelight, and controls much of what the U.S. sees in movies and TV, see BUSINESS, 10% of Everything.

YOUR father's a dirty scab!" is the shrill cry often heard these days on the quiet streets of Sheboygan, Wis. The gibe of one child against another is being echoed at the adult level as a U.S. Senate committee probes one of the longest, costliest strikes in U.S. history, the United Auto Workers four-year-old strike against the Kohler Co. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The "Almost Sinful" Strike.

ELECTRONIC computers have not learned, so far, to act as art critics or judges of beauty contests, but they are being taught to see. What may come of this? For a look forward at the sobering prospects, read SCIENCE, Seeing-Eye Computer.

TIME ran its first cover story on Lyndon Baines Johnson on June 22, 1953, just after he had emerged as the new Democratic leader of the U.S. Senate. Said TIME:

"Lyndon Johnson believes that he and his party should be rope-dealers: just deal out enough rope to the Republicans and let them hang themselves." Last week Lyndon Johnson was still dealing out rope, and it was time to see how he was getting on with the hanging. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, Sense & Sensitivity.

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