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...upon the green, tumbled land. But just ahead of the chirking mass, beyond the last bounds of a commuter's endurance, past the Levittowns and past Newyorkerland with its split-level houses and split-personality admen and Wall Streeters, lies the land of Dinner Party. It is rich farmland which no one farms, populated by Men who have Made their Mark and their families. Their wives scorn elegance in favor of unobtrusive Rightness, are kindly amused by the Locals, find butlers ostentatious and profess a terror of intellectuals. In their houses, their clothes and their mores, they achieve enormous...
...Sale: Human Milk. The floods that devastated about one-tenth of Red China's farmland last year were the worst floods of the century; then, for central and southeast China, came the sharpest frost in 72 years, for south China the worst drought in 100 years. "The calamities were so serious," Red China's Agriculture Minister Liao Lu-yen reported to the Communist State Council, "that last year's food production was reduced by 25 billion catties [12.5 million tons]." Tientsin's Ta Kung Pao noted: "150 million peasants are short of food...
...school, she averred, would "break through some of the traditional ideas of education for adolescents." In the rolling dairy country near Putney, Vt., she bought up 620 acres of farmland, pitched in with her first pupils (54 boys and girls) and teachers to equip classrooms and a library, convert outbuildings into dormitories...
Mainland papers recently smuggled out to Hong Kong indicated, however, that several million farmland acres were flood ed along the central Yangtze valley, that the 98-ft. dikes at Wuhan (pop. 1,000,-000), the tri-city of Hankow, Hanyang-and Wuchang, were under heavy pressure. Last month the Communists finally admitted that 600,000 "flood fighters" had been rounded up to work on the Yangtze dikes-more than 100,000 of them inside Hankow, where Red loudspeakers blared stirring martial music and Communist propaganda pep talks...
...Minister of Agriculture: Sir Thomas Dugdale, who resigned because of public outcry over Crichel Down, a now famous chunk of Dorset farmland taken over during the war as an R.A.F. bombing range. After the war, the original owner tried to buy it back, but Agriculture Ministry officials highhandedly refused to let it go at any price; they wanted to make an experimental farm out of it some day. Crichel Down has now become a national symbol of the arrogance of bureaucrats. Dugdale, resigning, gallantly took the rap for his subordinates. His successor: Derick Heathcoat-Amory, 54, who had been...