2-B OR NOT 2-B HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH HAMLET. Instead it is the basic issue of principle which has brought about the longest national steel strike in U.S. history and which last week caused the President of the U.S. to do some head-bumping. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS.

SEGREGATION IS NO SOUTHERN MONOPOLY. The vast Negro influx into Northern cities is spreading a new problem: de facto segregation. In New York City more than half the schools are in fact "segregated." Result: lower standards, poorer teachers, glaring evidence that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal." Last week proudly tolerant New Yorkers were reminded that the nation's leading unfinished morality play is being staged on their own doorsteps, as well as in Atlanta and Little Rock. For a provocative report on a subtle sociological disease, see EDUCATION.

MORE THAN HALF OF ALL FATAL INFECTIONS ARE ACQUIRED INSIDE A HOSPITAL. The extent of this danger and the complex, rigorous measures needed to minimize it preoccupied the American College of Surgeons' clinical congress last week in Atlantic City. See MEDICINE.

THE BLACK SHEEP OF THE FAMED KELLY FIELD CLASS OF 1929 WAS ONCE A PROMISING YOUNG FLYER. But a crash sent him all the way to Skid Row, where he recently got a letter asking him to meet once more with his old classmates. For what happened then, see NATIONAL AFFAIRS.

RED CHINA IS A MONUMENTAL MESS. This was the verdict of one Western diplomat last week as representatives of 87 countries, including Nikita Khrushchev, flew into Peking to celebrate the tenth anniversary of Communist rule. Not far from Nikita's side was a shadowy figure named Liu Shao-chi--the sort of human blur most people overlook. But nobody should overlook Liu. who is the man in charge of the organization charged with holding Red China together. See FOREIGN NEWS'S COVER.

IN A RARE CONVERSION, A JAPANESE SCHOLAR BECOMES A JEW. Though there are virtually no Jews in Japan, and Judaism is traditionally opposed to proselytizing, Philologist Setsuzau Kotsuji took the Jewish faith--after trying Shinto, Buddhism and Christianity--was circumcized at the age of 60. See RELIGION.

TIME COVER SUBJECT MAKES GOOD. Thirty-five years ago, the handsome, cowlicked Yale crew "captain, James Stillman Rockefeller, smiled out from a TIME cover, his expression confident that the Olympic crew that he led would go forth, "the bronze-skinned ones, to conquer the oarsmen of the world, as warlike Menelaus led the bronze-greaved Argives against Troy of old." The late Arthur Brisbane, his fancy tickled by the responsibilities of "this stalwart scion of honorable American lines," imagined him stirring his men to victory with "winged words plucked bright and burning" from the Homeric Greek: ri(j>d' OUTCOS ecrTTjre TeflrjTrores ^Ore ve(3pol ("Why stand ye here astounded, like fauns?"). Thus encouraged. Rockefeller's crew swept the Seine. For the latest news on James Stillman Rockefeller, who regretfully notes, after all these years, that he does not speak Greek, see BUSINESS.

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