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...Stalin died and was replaced by Khrushchev, Lysenko lost his absolute power. He was fired as president of the Soviet Academy of Agricultural Sciences as an increasing number of critics dared to oppose his views. Still, Lysenko had startling survivability. Even though Khrushchev was a great admirer of hybrid corn, the most conspicuous practical triumph of orthodox genetics, he did not cut Lysenko down entirely. Himself a peasant's son, Khrushchev was apparently attracted by Lysenko's rustic methods, and as his personal power grew, he raised Lysenko step by step, put him back in the Institute...
...limousine are thrown in, courtesy of the current Soviet management, but Khrushchev rarely uses the car to go to the Moscow apartment reserved for his use. Shunning all but his closest friends and family, he spends his time hunting moose and hare, raising prize hogs, and experimenting with hybrid corn he got from Roswell Garst, an Iowa farmer who came...
...near future. Central America will remain predominantly agricultural, and while modern methods are used to produce major exports (bananas, coffee), not enough attention is paid to such staples as corn, beans and rice. The most successful farms are on large pieces of land, says the C.E.D., pointing out that 50% of Central America's agricultural output comes from such operations. Counseling against land-reform programs to break up going concerns, the report suggests that land hunger can best be satisfied by opening up unused government-owned lands...
...Congo caper. "We have sent arms to the Congolese rebels," he boasted, "and we will continue to send arms-because the rebels need the support of all honest nations." Inferring a U.S. threat to cut off $140 million a year in aid to Egypt (mostly surplus wheat, corn and frozen chickens), Nasser waxed indignant: "We drink tea seven days a week now: we can cut it to five. We eat meat four days; we can cut it to three. We are people of dignity, and do not accept disdain from anyone." His own tongue somewhat carried away, Egypt...
...sight in Cairo. Last week, faced with the unpleasant fact that a measure of austerity is the inescapable price of a crash development scheme, the government took the drastic step of banning the slaughter and sale of meat three days out of each week. It's back to corn and beans for the Egyptians on Sundays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays, though tourist hotels will still be allowed to serve meat daily. Violators could get up to one year in jail. To ease the shortage, the government has also set aside $90 million in precious foreign exchange to import Russian frozen...