On global assignments for James A. Linen, the publisher of TIME, JOHN SCOTT has since 1952 made fact-finding trips to Europe, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and most recently through the entirety of Africa. A Philadelphian educated at the George School and the University of Wisconsin, Mr. Scott worked for five years as a welder in Ihe industrial plants of Russia until (he great purge of 1937 forced him from Sonet industry. He stayed on in Moscow for three years as a correspondent for the LondonNEWS CHRONICLE, Author of four books, best known of them, BEYOND THE URALS, Mr. Scott has worked for Time Inc. for the past seventeen years.