JUST a year ago, when the boyish face of Jordan's King Hussein first appeared on TIME'S cover, TIME noted that "to young King Hussein the complex intrigues of Araby are as familiar as baseball statistics to a U.S. teenager. The Hashemites have found intrigue a matter of simple survival amidst ambitious rivals." The rivals are still there; so is the intrigue. But the boy is now a man--of 21. See The Education of a King (FOREIGN NEWS) for how Hussein tackled his man-sized job.

BUSINESSMEN this week could reflect once more on the folly of underestimating the power of the U.S. economy. As 1957 began, the business outlook was for a good first half and a gradual tapering off later in the year--with a creeping profit squeeze for all of 1957. But when an overall profit squeeze failed to materialize in the first quarter, businessmen raised their sights for 1957. Now many believe that the second half of 1957 will be the better half, perhaps satisfying even those who expect a zoom on top of the boom. See BUSINESS, The Better Half.

IN a walled compound in the foot-- hills of Formosa last September, Photographer Robert Crandall embarked on one of his most exacting assignments: photographing some of the great store of Chinese art masterpieces that have been hidden from the world for more than two decades. He had flown to Formosa after TIME Correspondents John Osborne and Curtis Prendergast arranged with Nationalist Chinese authorities to unpack their choicest works, as selected by art experts Dr. Wang Shih-chieh and Dr.

Chuang Shang-yen, curator of the Peking Palace Museum collection, and Dr. Han Lih-wu, now Ambassador to Thailand, who supervised the removal of the treasures from Nanking. Proofs of the final selection, made with the help of U.S. experts, were flown back to Formosa for color correction on the spot, and are now reproduced, most for the first time, in ART, Masterpieces of Chinese Art. CALIFORNIA'S political gun slingers were moseying around the state last week, setting up barricades for the inevitable shouting that will break out when Governor Goodwin Knight defends his job against tall-in-the-saddle U.S. Senator William Fife Knowland next year. Somebody is bound to get hit, and one somebody might be fellow Californian Richard Nixon. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, Coming Attraction.

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THE X-17 is a rocket that flies upward just as a rocket should--and then comes back to earth too fast for its own good. See SCIENCE, Man-Made Meteor.

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