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...meet Haiti's budget and trade deficits through September. Money is vitally needed; because of poor crops, the causes of death in Haiti this year will include outright starvation. The grant is also a frown from Washington on all plans for invasion and backyard...
Concept for Chaos. Late last month, apparently aware of the crying need for a sensible priority system in the allocation of labor and transport, Peking's bureaucrats ordered a cutback in the backyard blast-furnace campaign. But all signs are that the shock-program concept still prevails. Currently, Red China's masses are engrossed in a drive to collect and distribute 10 billion tons of fertilizer; the nation's steel production target for 1959 is set for 18 million tons, a 64% increase over alleged production last year. Says one Hong Kong hand: "If they got snarled...
...about ten inmutes in the second act, a fine musical version of Juno and the Paycock is currently on view at the Shubert. These ten minutes show a backyard party, conducted to the tune of a cheerfully cheesy waltz, suddenly interrupted by the entrance of a woman on the way to the funeral of her son, who had been killed fighting for the Irish Republic. Most of the party, suddenly chastened, troop out as mourners, and the man who had been forced to inform on the dead soldier tries to relieve his feelings in a desperately gay dance...
Meanwhile, at Hanover, the varsity hockey team will tackle Dartmouth, perhaps its most ambitious challenger for the Ivy League championship this year. The Green skaters play a fast, aggressive style of hockey and, like all Dartmouth men will doubtless prove extra-aggressive when competing in their own backyard...
Sociologists customarily stalk elephantine generalities in exotic latitudes-from the South Seas to the cold-water jungles of Manhattan. In Daedalus, Big Game Sociologist David (The Lonely Crowd) Riesman breaks form by potshooting in his own backyard: the academic world. Samples of his mixed bag: ¶ Although some students maintain "a posture of contempt for business and a belief that, in contrast, teaching offers integrity, the life of the businessman and the life of the professor have become less and less distinct. The professor is no longer to be regarded as a stuffy fellow. He has become...