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...city and village dwellers tending backyard gardens, and collective or state farm workers cultivating private gardens limited to one acre, turned out 46% of all the meat, 49% of all the green vegetables, 49% of all the milk, 65% of all the potatoes, and 80% of all the eggs consumed in Russia. The excess above home consumption is sold in the network of officially tolerated produce markets to which Russian housewives turn when goods are unobtainable in state stores...
From coast to coast, on asphalt playgrounds, backyard lawns, city streets, municipal parks and seaside beaches, the newest sports craze in the U.S. is the old game of touch football. The sport that once belonged to the nation's scurrying small fry has suddenly been borrowed by grownups with a yen to work off energy, ease aging legs into shape, sweat out a hangover, or realize Mittyesque dreams of gridiron glory. Touch has lately become an obsession with college kids, wheezing gaffers, giggling secretaries-and, of course, the entire clan of President-elect John F. Kennedy, who, according...
...bigtime football standards, the whole operation seems as pleasantly relaxed as a backyard barbecue. The players are almost all home-state boys. They perform in a modest stadium before informal crowds that are packed with friends and relatives. The games draw less national publicity than the price of cotton raised on nearby farms. But year in and year out, the University of Mississippi plays some of the finest football in the nation. The reason: Coach Johnny Vaught, 52, a bluff, leather-faced perfectionist who has so identified the success of his team with the prestige of the state that Mississippians...
...which sprays concrete. A wire-tying gun enables workmen simply to aim at the joint where steel reinforcing rods need to be lashed, pull the trigger, and the job is done. For do-it-yourself fans, Chicago's Wonder Building Corp. has brought out fallout-bomb-shelter kits: backyard model for $1,200, smaller basement shelter...
When does a daily newspaper, even with the best of intentions, have a right to suppress a major news story in its own backyard? Nowhere was this question more heatedly debated last week than in the city rooms and among the readers of Houston's three newspapers: the Post, the Chronicle, and the Press. The issue involved the toughest problem facing the U.S.'s largest segregated city: integration...