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By dragooning the peasants into agrogorods, equipped with tractor fleets, Khrushchev was confident that he could mechanize Soviet farming. He also expected to mechanize the farmers. Soviet geneticists (e.g., Trofim Lysenko) have erected into Communist dogma the notion that man is mere animal, condemned by nature to acquire the characteristics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: The Muzhik & the Commissar | 11/30/1953 | See Source »

MUSEUM WITHOUT WALLS explores Malraux's thesis that art reproductions present mankind for the first time with a real view of the whole world's art. In reproductions, he writes, "miniatures, frescoes, stained glass, tapestries, Scythian plaques, pictures, Greek vase paintings, 'details' and even statuary . . . have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Telling Voice | 11/23/1953 | See Source »

Invaders & Guests. Ants have scent-glands on their backs, and in the course of their constant caressing, all the individuals in a colony acquire the same odor. Since ants depend chiefly on smell, rather than on sight or hearing, the colony odor is equivalent to the recognition signs that humans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Civilized Ants | 11/9/1953 | See Source »

News and editorial candidates will have opportunities to meet and interview the most interesting and important names in the University and will acquire writing facilities invaluable for filling examination blue books, while business candidates will begin to share in the operation of a $100,000 per year enterprise. Photographic competitors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: First Crimson comp of Year Begins Today | 10/5/1953 | See Source »

One of the bright young men of the Roman Catholic hierarchy in the U.S. is the 44-year-old Bishop of Worcester (Mass.), the Most Rev. John J. Wright, D.D. Boston-born Bishop Wright has had plenty of opportunity to acquire historical perspective: he studied for the priesthood in Rome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Substitute for Pollyanna | 9/28/1953 | See Source »

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