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...Western farm expert had never seen anything like it. On a tour last summer of Soviet collective farms, he was shown fields full of weeds, cabbages crawling with caterpillars, diseased corn. At a dairy farm in Byelorussia, 120 cows were jammed into a shed so filthy that the milkmaids took off their shoes rather than risk losing them in the mud. "What I saw was appallingly bad, rundown in every respect," said the expert last week. "But my tour was planned by the Russians themselves, so what I saw must have been far from the worst...
...compete, but to cooperate. Some 250 private trade and merchandising associations have mushroomed, ranging from the huge Common Market Association of Chemical Industries to the European Bed Union, from the Common Market Association of Beer Wholesalers to the European Brush Man ufacturers. Acronyms abound: Euromalt (malt makers), Euromaisers (corn producers), Unecolait (dairymen) and Uni-pede (the European Committee for the Producers and Distributors of Electrical Energy...
...N.A.A.C.P. has long claimed do not exist. Here is a cottonpicking Uncle Tom (Godfrey M. Cambridge) who hymns the supposedly subservient spirituals and cringes, hat in hand, before the white man ("You dah boss, Boss"). Here is the bighearted, yuk-yuk-yukking Southern mammy (Helen Martin). Here is the corn-pone simpleton (Ruby Dee) who says things like "Indo. I deed." Here is the unlicensed preacher hero, Purlie Victorious Judson (Ossie Davis)-a liar, a braggart, a trickster, and the self-appointed messiah of his race ("Who else is they got?"). And here, too, is the neo-Confederate villain...
...Full Corn. Many obscure masthead adages survive only out of deference to long-dead founders. Until recently, the Denver Post peppered the papers with a passel of Founder-Gambler Frederick Bonfils' hand-me-down maxims, including a standing head that ran over every police story: CRIME NEVER PAYS. One of the most enigmatic samples of U.S. newspaper wisdom comes from Mark 4:28 and runs above the Christian Science Monitor's lucid editorial page. It was adopted at the behest of Founder Mary Baker Eddy, who prescribed the original quote from the King James Version of the Bible...
...professors characterized the 22-year-old Makinen as "the most serious and hard-working young American we have seen in Berlin in a long time." Makinen spoke fluent German and Finnish (which he had learned from his family), took private lessons in Russian. Short, slight, with corn-silk blond hair cropped close, he was not a big hit with the girls at the university because, as one put it: "You always got the feeling that he would rather be alone...