THE U.S. had not merely won a great battle in the Pacific and averted a great disaster: The U.S. had proved its skill and might in a new form of warfare at sea. For, in the Battle of Midway, U.S. forces met and drove back the first full battle fleet, organized on the grand scale for modern war, which any nation has yet put to sea." So said TIME (June 15, 1942), sizing up a naval battle just fought off Midway Island in the Pacific. This week, on the 18th anniversary of the battle, TIME takes another look, adds Midway to the list of the world's most decisive battles. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The Turning Point.

THE prison code that Novelist Arthur Koestler described in Darkness at Noon, for tapping out the alphabet, echoed through the corridors of a Communist prison in Budapest. From their tapped-out conversations, top Hungarian Journalist Paul Ignotus and a young girl named Florence Matay, who could not see one another, fell in love. Last week they were honeymooning in Italy. For their story, see FOREIGN NEWS, After the Cinema.

HOW many angels can be put on the head of a pin is a less important matter to theology than how many interpretations can be put on the concept of sin. During much of their history, Americans did not give a pin for theology, preferring to view sin more in terms of hellfirers and heartwarmers in the mold of Jonathan Edwards or Billy Graham. In recent decades there has been a new, strong trend toward really heavy-duty thinking about the nature of God and man. Probably the deepest Protestant thought on these matters now goes on in the brain of Paul Tillich, an existentialist-minded theologian who is trying to do for Protestantism what Thomas Aquinas did for Roman Catholicism in the 13th century. For a report on the latest installment of Tillich's massive work, see RELIGION, The New Being.

CAMPAIGNING on a platform of the "full dinner pail," Herbert Hoover won enough friends and influenced enough people to win his way into the White House. Now, thousands of U.S. companies are winning friends and influencing their employees by eliminating the dinner pail. In its place they are supplying something better -- corporate restaurants. For the pros and cons of whether a company should assume this new corporate burden, see BUSINESS, Company Meals.

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