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Across the snowdrifted steppes of Soviet Russia last week slogged hundreds of thousands of peasants to attend party-organized "discussion" meetings about Nikita Khrushchev's latest decision: to abolish the tractor stations. Speaking last month to farm officials in Minsk, the First Party Secretary announced that the Machine Tractor Stations had outlived their usefulness as originally constituted, and that henceforth the collectives may buy and operate their own machinery. "Where there are two masters on the land, there can be no good order," he thundered. "The tractor station sows no flax but is supplied with flax machines. It plants...
...each other, and sometimes eloquent about the vacant longings of pretty, light-dazzled girls: "If they expected her to resist, or any of the girls like her, then it would have been wiser in the first place to have concealed all of it: wall around the big estates, and abolish from the newspapers those brides in the expensive veils, and keep the cameramen away from the yacht races." There is about Hayes's central character an air of minor damnation, the more poignant because it is insignificant. When struck by thought, she rings dreadfully hollow-and in her hollowness...
...referendum to keep or abolish the Council, urged by defeated vice-presidential candidate John S. Gracey '59, may be considered for the fall, "after we have made all our changes," Perlmutter said. This referendum, however, would not mention abolition, but would only ask for student suggestions for the Council...
...Sniffing out Charlie Wilson's plan to abolish the Army's Veterinary Corps in 1956, the Journal stayed the execution by pointing out that Congress alone has the legal authority for such action...
...Negro trade. Incensed at the boycott, alarmed because Tuskegee-encompassing Macon County is 84% Negro, Senator Engelhardt, officer in the lily-white Alabama Association of Citizens' Councils, hatched a king-size gerrymander. Last week, by a 21,012-vote margin, Alabama voters approved his constitutional amendment to abolish Macon County...