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...same excuse for the virgin lands of northern Kazakhstan, where the harvest would be far below expectations. In the Ukraine, bread basket of the Soviet Union, the wheat crop was "somewhat worse than last year." but party officials hoped to meet their overall grain quota by producing more corn (used for cattle fodder) than last year. The only bright spot that Khrushchev reported was in Great Russia, where a "record" grain harvest was reaped; a record by how much. Nikita discreetly declined...
...have largely removed from the weekly shows the only really objectionable elements they once displayed-miscellaneous sodomists, dope-addicted teen-agers kicking babies, and so on. The overall impression of the new series suggests a great bowl of mentholated cornflakes. There are exceptions, of course, but most of the corn is healthy, the humor and situations are pugnaciously wholesome, and the killing is largely confined to historic battlefields rather than back alleys. The new material is pretty fair; and if some of it is just no good, it is at least...
...Beverly Hillbillies (ABC) are Yokums in Smogpatch, a family whose basic social status is reflected in this joke: "Them pigs got into the corn," says Granny. Says Pa: "Did they drink much?" Oil was found on the hillbillies' land, and they have now moved to a Beverly Hills mansion, where they keep the porcine humor squealing: "What's a smog?" "A smog's a small hog." CBS's hour-long Fair Exchange is about an American family that trades teen-aged daughters with an English family. It is no bargain on either side...
...North America were to adopt a policy of 'Let nature take its course,' as some individuals thoughtlessly advocate, it is possible that these would-be experts would find disposing of the 200 million surplus human beings even more perplexing than the disposition of America's current corn, cotton and wheat surpluses...
...last year's half-faced camp." His possessions were what he had made himself or carried on his back from civilization. If he had had a cow, he had butchered her that winter to save his family from starving. He could count on a small squash and corn crop, if the Indians did not burn his fields, but the abundant game in the forests did him little good; his tiny supply of gunpowder was hoarded for fighting...