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...Smithfield Show, Britain's largest agricultural exhibition, is normally a roistering barnyard symphony of bleats, moos and grunts. But this year virtually the only sound to be heard in the show grounds at London's cavernous Earl's Court was the occasional roar of a tractor. For the first time in memory not a single animal was competing for the Smithfield's blue ribbons. The reason: one of the most virulent outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease in modern British history...
Pecking Order. In so vast a barnyard, the academic pecking order is inevitably at work. Academicians rarely believe that doing a topflight job on a less prestigious level is sufficiently rewarding. All of the schools want to rise higher. Junior colleges want to be four-year colleges. State colleges want to be universities. Since all must battle for a dwindling share of the tax dollar, competition can be vicious. And with so many separate claimants, state legislators come to think with their scissors, and budgets end in ribbons...
...overfamiliar Soviet plot, in which boy meets tractor girl and lives happily ever after raising norms, was getting too much for even barnyard critics to take. Last week Moscow's Literary Gazette, newspaper of the writers' union, published a letter reflecting the collective complaints of 19,000 "milkmaids, swineherds, calf-maids, gardeners, field hands, tractor drivers and collective farm chairmen.'' Gist: Soviet writers should stop filling their novels with foolishly detailed descriptions of farm chores they know nothing about and calling the result literature...
...part way up to such an example, English editors have placed unsavory divorces on their Irish forbidden list, along with ads or news stories on football pools, sex crimes, abortion and contraception. Venereal disease has not been mentioned in the Irish press in modern memory, and artificial insemination of barnyard animals is primly reduced to initials-A.I.-from Ballyshannon to Bantry...
...that she is pregnant. As the four-column ads explain it: "She hated the child whose life stirred within her because it was part of him whom she loathed and despised." She prays that she will lose it, and one night in a storm she stumbles out into the barnyard and has a miscarriage in the mud. Husband Boyd, generously letting bygones be bygones picks her up in his brawny arms and staggers six miles cross-country to the doctor. Then he turns around and staggers back to the farm to take care of Susan's seven-year...