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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...
...opposition fades away before Election Day. But in 1953, for the first time in a reign which began in 1928, 28 candidates ran against his National Union; all lost. This year, muzzled and muffled, all the opposition melted by Election Day except four lawyers, a merchant and an agronomist in the defiant northern district of Braga. The opposition complained that it was denied equal access to press, radio and the voters' rolls, that its supporters were blocked from voting. Salazar airily dismissed all his opponents as "Communists," and warned of the tense international situation. In an election eve broadcast...
DILLON S. MYER resigned as Commissioner of Indian Affairs. An agronomist for state governments and colleges in Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio. Myer went to Washington in 1934, serving with the AAA and then the Soil Conservation Service. After Pearl Harbor, he was given the tough chore of relocating West Coast Japanese. In 1946 he became Public Housing Commissioner, and in 1950 he took over the Interior Department's Bureau of Indian Affairs...