To keep abreast of the shifting news tides in Asia, we have made some additions and changes in our staff of correspondents :

ROBERT NEVILLE, onetime FOREIGN NEWS writer, will dock this week in Hong Kong. As bureau chief there, he will cover the precarious little British jumpseat walled in by ambitious Reds.

After wartime service in the Army, Neville was our correspondent in India for two turbulent years, followed by two years in Buenos Aires.

JACK BOWLING, former Pacific correspondent for the Chicago Sun-Times, joined our staff in October. He wrote FOREIGN NEWS for three months as a warmup for his current assignment--TIME correspondent in Southeast Asia. This week he is in Saigon to report on Indo-Chinese efforts to form a cabinet.

DWIGHT MARTIN, who has been covering the Korean war since September, recently reported on the state of Hong Kong's morale and defenses, then flew down for a look at booming business in Singapore. He is now headed for Formosa.

HUGH MOFFETT, chief of the Tokyo Bureau and onetime boss of our Chicago Bureau, was back on the Eighth Army front last week after being temporarily knocked out of action by a jeep accident. He heads up the staff of Americans and Japanese who cover Korea, MacArthur's headquarters, and Japan itself. Newest member of the staff: TOM LAMBERT, former Associated Press correspondent.

JIM BELL, who covered the Korean war for two months and was injured in a jeep accident, is now packing for another assignment. His new job: correspondent in the Russia-shadowed Middle East.

The editors expected our cover story on Senator Paul Douglas' speech ("The Fin of the Shark," Jan. 22) to bring us a heavy load of mail. They were right. But they did not expect something else that happened. The Senator's office was swamped with hundreds of letters and wires of praise for his analysis, as reported in this magazine. Some samples:

A Unitarian minister: "Bless you!"

A college professor: ". . . You have cut to the core of the matter and outlined a basic foreign policy in clearer and more logical terms than any other individual . . ."

A newspaper editor: "After reading your foreign policy and national defense proposals in TIME, I must state that you have come forward with the most realistic approach . . ."

A North Dakota Republican: "It is too bad you are a Democrat."

When our MEDICINE section reported on the new "push-pull" (Jan. 8) method of artificial respiration developed in research under Chicago's Dr. Andrew C. Ivy, the radical technique had been tried only on nine quite healthy volunteers and 109 newly dead bodies. Never had it been tested on an actual drowning victim.

The story was spotted by Russell G. Tongay of Miami, father of swimming prodigies called the "Aquatots." He sent for a copy of the A.M.A. Journal article referred to in our story.

One morning soon after, he took his Aquatots to train in Ft. Lauderdale Municipal Pool. There, face down in the deep end of the pool, lay a little girl. He dived in, pulled her out, and tried for several minutes to revive her by the traditional Schaefer prone-pressure method.

But five-year-old Mary Jane Vickery showed no signs of reviving. Tongay took a chance. He tried the push-pull, and she soon began to stir. After a night in Broward Hospital, Mary Jane went home, fully recovered.

Tongay reported this first test case to the researchers who developed the push-pull method. Said Dr. Ivy: "A doctor's work, in practice or research, is intended to save lives. This makes me feel good . . ." TIME'S job is to tell the news; this makes us feel good, too.

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