A Letter From The Publisher, Oct. 10, 1960

Nikita Khrushchev clumped off the Baltika on his arrival in the United States, he looked at the crowd waiting on the dingy East River pier, saw a somewhat camouflaged familiar face and, with a steely grin, stroked his chin. This was the Soviet boss’s wordless greeting to a man he recognized as a member of the press corps, TIME’S Moscow Bureau Chief Edmund Stevens. Since Khrushchev had last seen him, Stevens, while on vacation. had grown a rusty beard. Later, in a bantering mood, Khrushchev likened the beard to Pushkin’s, and predicted that Stevens would never grow a beard like Fidel Castro’s.

Ed Stevens was on hand to greet Khrushchev as part of a nine-man force assembled for TIME’S on-the-scene coverage of the U.N. session. The others, covering their special fields or assigned to specific facets of the story, were Washington Bureau Chief John Steele, White House Correspondent Charles Mohr, State Department Correspondent John Beal, Latin American Specialist Jerry Hannifin, New York Correspondents George Bookman and Bill Smith, Chicago Senior Correspondent Murray Gart and Montreal Bureau Chief Gavin Scott.

From these correspondents’ reports, supplemented by many other sources, the editors put together TIME’S down-to-the-whispers analysis of history in process at the U.N.

THIS week the 1960 edition of TIME’S Vacation Review Quiz is being mailed to the thousands of students across the country enrolled in the TIME Education Program. A supplement to TIME’S annual Current Affairs Test, the 50-question quiz was created as an entertaining way for college and high school students to review the news. You may have a complimentary copy (and answer sheet) by writing to Vacation Review Quiz, Box 415, New York 46, N.Y.