YOUR views, like those of most strong men, may not be acceptable to all--nor, under our means of government, should they be ... Your future will be watched with more than normal interest."

So read the citation that accompanied the honorary LL.D. awarded by Hamilton College to Senator Barry Goldwater in 1961. As the probable Republican nominee for President, Dr. Goldwater is TIME'S cover subject this week, for the third time in almost three years.

As we reported his gradual entry into the mainstream of the news--whether or not into the "mainstream of Republican thought"--we also noted that honorary doctorate, and we did so under one of the oldest standing heads in TIME. Our EDUCATION section began its annual listings of academic honors in 1924, 16 months after TIME'S first issue, and started using the title Kudos in 1925. The selection of a few dozen from among the hundreds of honorary degrees that bloom each spring has always been difficult, and TIME warned at the outset: "It is not necessarily implied that either the institutions or individuals listed are the 'best.' "

In selecting the kudos we report, we are apt to play the big, inevitable items against the surprising, the unpredictable, the offbeat. This, of course, also applies to our selection of other kinds of news. We like to think that we bring special qualities to the week's big "musts," but we also know that TIME does not live only by the inevitable stories. We are particularly concerned with the people and events that do not force themselves to the top of the news but must be sought out by the enterprising journalist--just as many an honorary doctor must be sought out by the enterprising giver of kudos.

This issue contains a number of stories in this category. In THE NATION we report not only on the California primary but on a new airplane that, though still on the drawing boards, might some day provide the answer to the nagging jungle war in South Viet Nam. In THE WORLD we tell not only about the new Prime Minister of India but about the "king" of Sankt Pauli, the notorious center of Hamburg's gaudy night life, and his "Black Gang."

In other sections, too, you will find news that is not conveyed by the headlines or the bulletins. SHOW BUSINESS, for instance, covers Manhattan's most unusual entertainment (it happens on the sidewalk). Music tells about one of the newest and most exciting masters of the dance, LAW about a philanthropist who would like, if he could, to bail out every prisoner in the land. BUSINESS talks about the comeback of the small grocer, and RELIGION about a hotel that owes more to Moses than to Conrad Hilton.

As for EDUCATION, it runs not only the season's No. 2 installment of Kudos but a story about a new system that teaches children to read by keying consonant and vowel sounds to certain colors. According to this system, by the way, TIME is "spelled" magenta, light yellow and scarlet orange.

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