IN the U.S. Navy's underground antisubmarine warfare plotting room in Norfolk, sailormen stand 24-hour-a-day vigil over a map that represents the millions of square miles of Atlantic Ocean (see cut). From the Navy's far-flung detection posts come reports of unidentified contacts, instantly plotted with diamond-shaped metal markers. This wall-sized chart is televised daily to Atlantic Fleet Commander Jerauld Wright, Admiral U.S.N.; top-secret reports on sightings are typed on red paper, circulated among the proper officials of the Pentagon--and the typewriter ribbons are locked up after use to prevent unauthorized people from examining the ribbon imprints. This is only one phase of ASW (Antisubmarine Warfare). The task of detecting, hunting--and wartime, killing--of enemy submarines is a newly emphasized science, bursting with urgency. The top U.S. antisubmariner is an admiral who has proved his versatility as a fighter pilot, on the bridge of a fighting ship, and in the Big Think climate of the Pentagon. For the story of Rear Admiral "Jimmy" Thach and his war against the underworld, see NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The Goblin Killers.

WE had fought the lion of British imperialism as a lion," said India's Prime Minister Nehru on his country's eleventh anniversary of independence, "but then came from behind a snake which bit us." The snake was a purely domestic product--internal disunity and, most of all, the constant threat of bankruptcy. Nehru has of late talked a great deal about retirement, and many of his countrymen, sensing a staleness of leadership, have begun to wonder whether he is the one to lead them through the difficulties that lie ahead. For a report on those difficulties and a thoroughgoing look at a likely successor to Nehru, see FOREIGN NEWS, Billion-Dollar Troubles.

MADISON AVENUE calls it "the Filter Derby." U.S. Congressman John A. Blatnik calls it "a lot of hot air." In the hotly competitive tobacco industry, the claims fly thick and fast, with half the firms advertising that their filter fliters best of all. To settle the argument, the Federal Trade Commission wants a single, standard test for all filters. Meanwhile, for what the public, the companies, the U.S. Congress thinks, see BUSINESS ESSAY, Those Cigarette Claims.

ARE the quiz shows fixed? The question agitates millions of TV viewers to whom the mind-rending programs have become not only a favorite pastime but almost a national institution. For an inside account of how one of the shows--the popular Dotto--was bounced off the air for downright crookedness, see SHOW BUSINESS, Scandal of the Quizzes. That story follows other reports by TIME'S new section that have won high readership ratings since it started three weeks ago. Among them: last week's piece on the agents who find and coach quiz-show contestants, which served as an appropriate curtain raiser to the Dotto affair; the story on Frank Sinatra's invasion of Madison, Ind., which became the talk of show people; and the Jack Paar cover story, which helped set an all-TIME circulation high for the issue in which it ran: 2,317,000.

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