THREE hours after the U.S. District Court had issued an injunction against him, Arkansas' Governor Orval Eugene Faubus appeared on a state television network and, among other matters, delivered a lecture on magazine journalism. First he "invited" his audience to read the Sept. 20 issue of U.S. News & World Report, which carried a let-him-talk. question-and-answer interview with Faubus. Then he said: "The obviously prejudiced and false reports in TIME and Newsweek will not help the situation.''

Faubus named and misnamed a group of Arkansas "integrationists"' who "colored, slanted and falsified reports in TIME and Newsweek and in other publications." Concluded he of his fellow Arkansans: "They have a right to their viewpoint, but they and others have bent every effort to contact all newsmen from out of the state and to indoctrinate them with a biased and prejudiced viewpoint toward me."

Can the whole, factual story on Little Rock consist only of interviewing Orval Faubus, taking his worn-thin word at its face value, and stopping there? TIME had such an interview. But TIME correspondents also interviewed Arkansas integrationists and Arkansas segregationists. They also interviewed Orval Faubus' father, his cousins and his friends in the Ozark hills, along with his political cronies and his political enemies. They also interviewed Little Rock city and school authorities. Justice Department officials in Washington. U.S. District Judge Ronald Davies. pool-hall characters standing around Little Rock's Central High School, and the Negro children kept out of school. In short, they interviewed everyone necessary for the whole, factual story on what Orval wrought--not merely a politely phrased set of questions and answers.

AS the impasse at Little Rock came to a showdown, the key figure was little (5 ft.1 in., but "please don't call me tiny") U.S. District Judge Ronald Norwood Davies. who came temporarily from Fargo, N. Dak. to preside over the Eastern District of Arkansas. To report on the life and times of Judge Davies, TIME Chicago Correspondent Ed Darby flew to wind-blown North Dakota (his plane was grounded on the way to Grand Forks when a door flew open in mid-air). And one night, done with work for a while. Ronald Davies sat shirtsleeved in his Little Rock chambers, talked long and thoughtfully to Chicago Bureau Correspondents Jack Olsen and Burt Meyers. His one stipulation: no questions about the pending integration case. For a portrait of the man who upheld the laws in the South, see NATIONAL AFFAIRS, Visiting Judge in Little Rock.

BOXING'S Archie Moore, being occupied with somewhat more mundane things, probably never had the pleasure of meeting Cecil, the duckbilled platypus. But this week they share in common the pages of TIME; Cecil because, frail and elderly (12), he died; Archie, considerably older, because he fought well and won. In a week filled with news of high moment and striking impact, both Archie and Cecil fought their way into TIME's crowded pages because their stories bore the trademark of the writer who searched his mind and found the telling phrase. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, Liebestod, and SPORT, Old Man's Cunning.

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