ABOARD the Atlantic Coast Line's Palmetto Limited at 6:15 one evening last week sat Mr. and Mrs. Christian Herter, bound from Washington for a quick weekend's rest in Green Pond, S.C. Also aboard the train, also bound for Green Pond was TIME Washington Correspondent Harold B. Meyers. Soon after the train pulled out of Washington's Union Station, Meyers handed a porter a note for the Herters, a few moments later was welcomed into their room for an informal interview ("I had known you were aboard," said Herter later, "and I must confess I was quite put out about it"). While Meyers was having his chat with the soon-to-be-appointed Secretary of State, other TIME staffers were digging into Herter's life story elsewhere, and summing up the record of John Foster Dulles, whose stamp on world history has been reflected and examined in TIME'S pages for years (three cover stories; Man of the Year, 1954). For a closely detailed account of Christian Herter's place in last week's news, and a studied assessment of Dulles' achievements, see NATIONAL AFFAIRS. The New Secretary and John Foster Dulles.

IN Nairobi, the capital of Kenya, a big chunk of the audience at a movie would rise in days past and bow toward the screen whenever Rita Hayworth appeared in a picture. Thus did Nairobi's Moslems pay their respects to the wife of Prince Aly Khan, whose father ruled their Ismaili sect. Asians in Africa are about 800,000 strong. While the white rulers have begrudgingly tolerated Africa's Asians, the blacks have become increasingly resentful of them. For a continent-wide report on the increasing number and growing problems of Asians in Africa, see FOREIGN NEWS. Between Black & White.

WHAT is the stock market going to do next? See BUSINESS. Best Bird Dog on the Street.

THREE years ago Harris Prior, director of The American Federation of Arts, was looking for a major show to mark the A.F.A.'s 50th anniversary celebration in 1959. Reading TIME'S cover story on Eero Saarinen (July 2, 1956), he noticed a box headed "The 20th Century Form Givers," was struck by the possibilities of making it the theme of a comprehensive and definitive exhibition of 20th century architecture. Prior went to TIME, asked it to tap its research and picture resources to assemble the show. Organized by Associate Editor Cranston Jones, who has won two American Institute of Architects' awards (Saarinen cover; Edward D. Stone cover, March 31, 1958), and designed by Gyorgy Kepes, M.I.T.'s Professor of Visual Design, Form Givers at Mid-Century opens this week at Washington's Corcoran Gallery, first stop on a nationwide tour. For a preview, see ART, The New Architecture.

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