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Obedient to Mao's dictum. Red China's peasants in 1959 reduced the amount of land they sowed by nearly 10%, set out to make up for it by deep plowing and heavy fertilization. But in his theorizing. Mao had forgotten that China is desperately short of chemical fertilizers and even the simplest agricultural tools. Result was that although Peking's grain production target for 1960 is 300 million tons. China will be lucky to produce two-thirds that much. Admits the People's Daily: "If this year's summer harvest equals that...
...Lonely Visitor. Khrushchev's grandstanding offer, if meant to be taken seriously, casually undercut his dictum-reiterated only last week in his letter to Macmillan-that he would never again sit down at a conference table with Dwight Eisenhower. At such a spectacular get-together of chiefs of state, Russia might find it easier than in a more professional Disarmament Commission session to avoid explaining why the self-styled champions of peace had stalked out of the ten-nation Geneva disarmament talks last June. And if the Disarmament Commission is prevented from meeting, it is prevented from urging...
...said Khrushchev, "only madmen and maniacs launch a call for a new war." Why, in these "totally changed historical conditions," should Communists keep "mechanically repeating" Lenin's 1918 dictum that war between capitalist and Communist states is "inevitable...
...good rough officer with a fine sense of humor," Gursel's rise through Turkey's army hierarchy was steady: graduating from Turkey's War College in 1929. he got his first star in 1946, his fourth in 1957. A devout believer in Ataturk's dictum that the army must be beyond politics, he shunned publicity, spent most of his spare time with his wife and son, now a com mission broker in Izmir. As a result, he remained almost unknown to the Turkish public until last week...
...book even one day, Principal (of Male High School) W. S. Milburn, also president of the Louisville board of aldermen and a member of Citizens for Decent Literature, banned the book-without reading it. I protested in vain. Indeed, it was the unheard-of defiance in protesting such a dictum that led to my dismissal...