AFTER half a dozen war-starved -- years, everyone remembered Paris' "New Look." Since then, the high priests of high fashion have come out with a long collection of other looks, each one different yet none so well remembered as the first. Seeing 1958's new styles last week, a fashion-wise correspondent coined a trademark that may survive as long as the New Look --and with a different impact. See BUSINESS, A Little Bit Monsterish.

PUSHMI-PULLYUS, according to Doctor Dolittle's faithful Chronologist Hugh Lofting, "are now extinct. That means, there aren't any more. But long ago, when Dr. Dolittle was alive, there were some of them still left in the deepest jungles of Africa; and even then they were very, very scarce. They had no tail, but a head at each end, and sharp horns on each head." Last week TIME's editors discovered that Lofting had been wrong in only one respect: the Pushmi-Pullyu is not extinct at all: it was revived in the form of the U.S. Congress, which, like the Pushmi-Pullyu, had trouble making up its mind, and often leaped in opposite directions after its two heads, getting nowhere. For a review of the Pushmi-Pullyu session, see NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The Do-Little 85th Congress.

IN the jet age, a low-altitude bailout has almost always meant quick death for the aircraft pilot. Last week the Navy successfully tested a British low-altitude ejection seat that may become the American military pilot's best friend. See SCIENCE, "Positively Wizard!"

IT is time, says Italian Designer Gio Ponti, for the modern male to rescue the double bed from the dainty clutch of the modern female. The ordinary double bed with its feminine frills not only sins against good taste, he argues, but is no place where a man can be sick with comfort or die with majesty. Agush with strong and sensible views on everything from bathroom faucets to skyscraper spires, Milan's Ponti exuberantly looks forward to the day when walls twist like trees and look like vegetables. See ART, The Pleasures of Ponti.

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