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...lurid levels, so much more belching forth when nothing more seems possible. Except for its blatant treatment of sex, Mandingo would itself seem an anachronism, written in 1832 as well as taking place then. The scene is an Alabama plantation, with Franchot Tone as an aging, tippling, crotchety slave breeder and seller. Among his slaves are drunkards, onetime bedmates, "rheumatiz boys," and three Mandingos (so named for their ancestral African tribe), who to preserve their pure blood must practice incest. Among his family are a son who loathes his wife and lives openly with a slave girl, and a lewd...
...lactation record for goats was announced, and the standard-shatterer was no ordinary goatnik but a good old Flat Rock (N.C.) nanny. Her breeder: a University of Chicago Phi Bete ('04) now specializing in capralogy, Lillian Steichen Sandburg, 78, sister of Photographer Edward Steichen and wife (since 1908) of Poet-Lincoln Lord Carl Sandburg. The record: 191 Ibs. of butterfat, 5,750 Ibs. of milk in a 305-day period...
...grow sugar cane, and Florida hopes for a 20% rise in its sugar quota. Floridians support the nation's biggest dog-racing industry and train a big share of its trotting horses in such sun-drenched towns as Ocala, where Sofa Manufacturer Bernard Castro is a leading horse breeder...
Potato Chips. Lysenko's lank hair is now grey, but at 62, the old plant breeder still brings the buoyant spirit of religious revival to the Khrushchevian task of boosting yields. Sunburnt and dust-covered, he travels the vast land, bawls orders to the peasants in his hoarse, high-pitched voice: "Keep the weeds down." "Put on more manure." "Thin out in case of drought." Khrushchev, another peasant's son from the Ukraine, understands and appreciates that kind of talk. Lysenko tells virgin land pioneers not to plow their land in the fall but to plant their grain...
...plant, on which AEC is spending only $4,500,000 of the cost, has been un der construction since 1956 and is sched uled to be completed this fall. It would be the first big U.S. plant with a fast-breeder reactor, the type most likely to produce competitively cheap atomic power, since it produces more atom fuel than it consumes. At AEC hearings, a group of top scientists, led by Professor Hans A. Bethe of Cornell, testified that the plant could be operated without undue risk to the public. City officials of Monroe said they welcomed the plant...