NOBODY really knows all that goes on inside the Kremlin, but as Air Force General Nathan Twining said on his return from Moscow last year, there are "degrees of ignorance." When the big news broke of the sacking of Molotov, Malenkov and Kaganovich, TIME began to dig for last week's comprehensive coverage and this week's Khrushchev cover story, tapping all the available intelligence sources in Warsaw, Prague, Belgrade. Bonn, Munich, London and Washington. To supplement the news and analysis from correspondents in the field. TIME called on the resources of its library of past Russian events, and its "Russian Desk," presided over by two ex-Russian scholars. From all of these sources, Associate Editor Godfrey Blunden assembled and wrote TIME'S stories of Nikita Khrushchev's historic coup.

A globetrotting, Australian-born newspaperman, "Geof" Blunden has written ten previous TIME cover stories on Communist leaders in the past seven years. During World War II he was a war correspondent in Russia (1942-43), covering the battle of Stalingrad and the capture of Kharkov. He is also the author of two novels about Russia (A Room on the Route, The Time of the Assassins), as well as a recently published satire on the second Geneva Conference (The Looking-Glass Conference). For the product of his carefully acquired knowledge, plus that of a host of other students of the Russian scene, see FOREIGN NEWS, The Quick & the Dead.

IN the brambled woods of international affairs, the Eisenhower Administration operates on the proposition that acquaintanceship breeds understanding. Thus the U.S. has seen a steady procession of visiting foreign statesmen who came in response to President Eisenhower's "getting to know you" invitation. Last week Pakistan's Prime Minister Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy arrived in Washington for a talk with President Eisenhower and a close look at the country. For a detailed report on the Prime Minister's background, thinking, personality and private life, TIME queried its correspondents in Karachi and New Delhi. In Washington, TIME'S reporters tapped the State Department and the visiting delegation, and dogged the public as well as private movements of the guest. Results of this study of the man who represents the stoutest U.S. ally in South Asia are reported in NATIONAL AFFAIRS, Pakistan's Premier.

THE big concrete shield of the cyclotron swung open, and a masked scientist dashed wildly down a 100-yard corridor in a race. His opponents: a set of disintegrating atoms. Though it was quite unlike the procedure normally associated with the grave and careful laboratories of science, the race was crucial to the performance of that increasingly difficult feat--the identification of a new element. The story of how the 100-yard dash helped a team of international scientists create element 102 is told in SCIENCE, Chemists, Run!

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