Who's for whom? And who's for (or against) what? These questions are in season during the weeks of U.S. presidential politicking, but in TIME'S approach to what is going on in the rest of the world such questions are never out of season. Some examples from this week's issue:

B. F. Bayruns is for females being women; see LETTERS, Les Girls.

Rear Admiral (ret.) William L. Erdmann was against the practice of paying import duties on whisky; see NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The Big E.

Guinea's President Sekou Toure is against offending any possible creditor. East or West, Communist or democratic; see FOREIGN NEWS, The Big Hello.

Sao Paulo Slum Dweller Carolina Maria de Jesus is against Father's Day; see HEMISPHERE, Life in the Garbage Room.

Jack Paar, for painful personal reasons, is against bulls; see PEOPLE.

Everybody was for those famous wartime dogfaces Willie and Joe, but for a good many peacetime years they seemed to be against their creator; see PRESS, In War & Peace.

Russian operagoers are for George London; see Music, Coals in Newcastle.

Most of the season's new television programs so far are for the birds; see SHOW BUSINESS, The New Shows.

Water Research Chief Bernard B. Berger is against foaming drinking water; see MEDICINE, Environment v. Man.

Mrs. Germaine Vuillier, breeding manager of the Aga Khan's racing stables, is against trying to produce a plus from two pluses; see SPORT, "My Magic Is Science."

Bomber pilots are against those tell-tale streaks known as contrails--and in the future they may not have to worry about them; see SCIENCE, Death of a Contrail.

Carl Sandburg is for babies and dreams and songs; see THEATER, New Recital on Broadway.

Belgian Painter James Ensor is against reason; see ART, Grim Reaper.

Psychologist Jerome S. Bruner is for "the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion"; see EDUCATION, The New Learning.

Jesuit Theologian Gustave Weigel is for understanding Protestants; see RELIGION, Dialogue for Siblings.

Director Satyajit Ray is for movies that are not like movies; see CINEMA, The World of Apu.

India's legislators are against maharajahs, Lady Godiva and Lady Chatterley's Lover; see BUSINESS, The Dangers of Wit.

Author James Agee was against buyers of his books; see BOOKS, In Love & Anger.

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