Word: agronomists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...just-published book entitled Farms and Farmers in an Urban Age, Agronomist Edward Higbee, a University of Rhode Island professor, takes a refreshingly clear-eyed look at the miracle and the mess. Sponsored by the Twentieth Century Fund, the book cuts through the confusion of federal farm policy like a well-honed scythe leveling a weed patch...
...Agronomist Atwood is a Phi Beta Kappa out of the University of Wisconsin, where he simultaneously earned B.A. and M.A. degrees, later got his doctorate in plant cytology. He went to Cornell in 1944 as an expert on developing new kinds of hay and other forage crops, became dean of the graduate school in 1953 and provost of the university in 1955. Popular with the faculty, Atwood might have succeeded Cornell's retiring President Deane W. Malott. This spring the job went to an outsider, Carnegie Corporation Vice President James A. Perkins, and Emory feels all the richer...
Khrushchev himself continued his campaign against the "personality cult" when at a Kiev meeting his agricultural policies were openly criticized by an agronomist and he replied breezily that orders must not be obeyed unthinkingly: "I can be mistaken." But there were signs that the anti-Stalinist drive was having dangerous side effects. Central Committee Secretary Leonid Ilyichev took pains to warn a convention of 2,700 party propagandists that anti-Stalinism must not lead to questioning the Marxist-Leninist system itself or to opposing the right kind of leadership...
...Another agronomist touring the Eastern European satellite countries was equally amazed. In Hungary, enough machinery parts "to supply six collectives" lay rusting in the open air. In Czechoslovakia on a Sunday, there was no one in the fields to turn the cut grain, drenched by a recent rain, so that it would be dry on Monday. A collective farm boss in Rumania confessed that the peasants "just don't care any more." This year's total harvest in Eastern Europe will be scarcely better than prewar production in the same area. Significantly, perhaps, the best yield will...
...Khrushchev's top ghosts-Andrei Shevchenko and G. T. Shuisky-are, like himself, from the Ukraine. Shevchenko seems to be the senior member and, as an agronomist, is credited with writing most of Khrushchev's major agricultural speeches...