AMONG the perils of reporting this week's cover story on David Rockefeller, Correspondent Marshall Berges counts a rocky trip from New York to Maine with his subject aboard a Beechcraft. They put down at Rockland in rough weather. Unable to go on, they tramped up and down U.S. 1 in the rain, only to find every motel flashing a "No Vacancy" sign. "I wasn't really worried," says Berges. "I figured that if things really got desperate, Rockefeller would buy us a motel."

They finally found an 8-ft. by 8-ft. cabin in Camden, Me., barely big enough for two beds. Rockefeller got into his pajamas, propped himself up in bed and announced: "Let's see, now. Back there in the plane, when you began turning green and stopped taking notes, I kept on talking. I'm sorry; I should have been more thoughtful. Why don't we go over that part again?"

The interview continued from 9 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. as Berges asked the questions that Contributing Editor Everett Martin wanted answered for the story he was to write. Berges' next memory is of his roommate tiptoeing around the luggage-filled room at 6 a.m. trying to avoid waking Berges. Rockefeller went off to a sailing race, and at his summer home in Seal Harbor two days later took up the conversation again: "Let's see now, when we broke off at 1:30 the other morning we were at the point of . . ." WITH schools starting up again, TIME is sending out something old and something new.

The something new is the first issue of WORLD EVENTS, a weekly wall chart (49 in. by 37 5/8in.) with colored pictures and maps, for elementary and high school classrooms. Along with it goes a four-page guide for the teachers.

The project has been jointly developed by TIME INC. and the Silver Burdett Co.

The old familiar is the Vacation Review Quiz, giving students 52 questions as an entertaining way to review the news of the summer. The quiz is a little brother of the famous Current Affairs Test, which millions of students have taken over the past 2 7 years, during which time high scorers in the quiz have won some 150,000 globes and books.

Soon, reprints of the compact and comprehensive three-page report on 27 nations of "Independent Africa," published in the Aug. 3 issue, will be sent to all the 4,000 classes enrolled in the TIME Education Program.

If you would like a reprint--or the Vacation Review Quiz (along with an answer sheet)--write to TIME INC., Box 1962, Radio City Station, New York 19, N.Y. Handling charge: 10-c- each, 15 for $1.

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