DEPORTING the sensational is a ' -comparatively easy job when there are big names or high crimes to make the headlines. Reporting the moods and feelings of everyday life is quite another matter: it takes an eye for detail, an ear for.sound and a compassionate sensitivity for the little things. Last week TIME assigned just that kind of reporting task to its correspondents. From reporters across the U.S. came rich detail that developed into a theme: the U.S. in this midsummer is on the move, bag, baggage and children. Correspondent Charles Mohr, driving crosscountry from San Francisco to his new assignment in the Washington bureau, tuned in a sharp traveler's-eye view. Mohr noted, in addition to such phenomena as foam-rubber hats and rock-'n'-roll-loving Indians, that the new state turnpikes are working a special kind of havoc on a special kind of citizen. Reported Mohr: "I heard one traveler remark on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, as he gratefully approached Pittsburgh, 'This is the first time I ever passed through three states without having a drink.' " See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, Summer 1957.

"THE paradox of the waning 1950s is that prosperity has become the root of problems. From Buffalo to Bombay, prosperity-fueled inflation is gnawing at the consumer's pocketbook, and the high cost of money is crimping the expansion plans of business and industry. The problem (which the Finns call "a crisis of prosperity") is reported and analyzed in BUSINESS, World Capital Shortage, and FOREIGN NEWS, Life on the Escalator.

HOLLYWOOD stars are never mere ly "born"-- and rarely stay bearable. Even with such uncommon clay as beautiful, white-blonde Kim Novak, 24, now the nation's No. 1 box-office attraction, it took a heap of studio craft to make a star. ("If you wanna bring me your wife or your aunt," says Starmaker Harry Conn, "we'll do the same for them.") Columbia Pictures, which shaped Kim to fill the place of an uppity Rita Hayworth, plunged Actress Novak into an ordeal which is now approaching full cycle, ironically confronts the studio with the old problem of an uppity star. For the story of how it happened, see this week's cover story in CINEMA, A Star Is Made.

PUSHED well into the background by the sound and fury of the Senate's great Civil Rights fight is the basic fact in the controversy: thousands of qualified Negroes in the Deep South are still regularly denied their right to vote. How, in the face of modern justice, and by whom, in the light of morality, is a detective story of intriguing proportions. From the authoritative Southern Regional Council in Atlanta last week came a detailed analysis of Negro voting. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, Southern Negroes & the Vote.

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