THE editors of TIME put a high premium on range and diversity in coverage of the news -- from political maneuvers in THE NATION through the bright (and dim) lights of SHOW BUSINESS and the discoveries of MEDICINE to the ideas of THEATER and the thoughts in BOOKS. One way in which that concept is illustrated in this week's issue is the ten editorial color pages produced under circumstances as diverse as their subject matter.

For reproduction of the paintings in ART, the key problem was correct lighting and precise checking of proofs to make sure that the results were true Pollock. The right angle and the right camera were basic to the MODERN LIVING pictures of Robert Moses' budding New York World's Fair. Anthony Linck took the two-page overall view of the Fair site from a helicopter with a camera built from parts of a Fairchild K-20, a Linhof and a Speed Graphic, with a hood made from a cooking pot off a restaurant steam table. Going to press with the RELIGION color pictures of Pope Paul's pilgrimage was a problem of speed -- as well as stamina and a little bit of luck -- for a crew of photographers working under the general field guidance of Rome Bureau Chief Robert E. Jackson and Beirut Chief George de Carvalho. Photographer Ben Martin was seized and dragged into St. Anne's Church by confused guards who, after demanding his film, unthinkingly left him in the church to take the only pictures of the Pope greeting the Orthodox prelates there. To get the picture of the papal procession moving along the street in Bethlehem, J. Alex Langley rented a mosque for $15 and shot from the roof. For David Lees, the great moment was his historic picture of the kiss of peace between Pope and Patriarch on the Mount of Olives.

In New York, Senior Editor Cranston Jones, who supervises editorial color projects, and Contributing Editor Charles P. Jackson, whose critical eye watches the technical side, felt that they had had quite a week --having gone from Pollock to Pope, with a bow to Moses along the way.

HOUSTON Bureau Chief Mark Sullivan first set foot on Texas soil in August 1959, when he crossed the Red River near Denison and was somewhat disappointed to see that the Texas side looked the same as the Oklahoma side. In the 4 1/2 years since, he has been in virtually every corner of the state, even to Wink, Waxahachie, North Zulch, Buffalo Gap and Muleshoe. What he has found, as he reported for this week's cover story, is that "there are few if any generalities that can be applied to the state as a whole." Writer Ed Magnuson, a Minnesotan transplanted to New York, spent a week in Texas with Correspondent Sullivan, and among his discoveries was that "New Year's Eve in Houston turned out to be no more raucous than it is in St. Cloud." Their story tells a newly curious world about the ayes as well as the nays of Texas.

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