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Spreading Trouble. Czechoslovakia's Communist leaders took alarm. Unlike Poland's top leaders, who seem to share some of the current ideological ferment of their countrymen, Czech Reds have been trying to squash any new thoughts among their people. Czech newspapers refused to print the students' resolutions, and the students gave the regime a lesson in enterprise: they fired off copies by air taxi and motorcycle to other Czech university towns, where the resolutions were widely circulated and discussed. Someone sent a copy to Radio Free Europe, and soon the full text was being beamed...
Ucureña is rapidly trading in its old reputation as a center of radical ferment for new fame as a high producer of wheat and potatoes. Last week, after unseasonal frosts had ruined the potato crops in the 12,000-ft. highlands, Ucureña easily supplied an extra 200 tons of top-quality seed potatoes to plant an out-of-season crop in the lower valleys. Black-haired José Rojas, now 43, and Moon are mutual admirers, and Rojas refuses even to comment on the bad old days when he was anti-U.S. "Instead...
Poland, the largest (pop. 26 million) of Russia's six European satellites, is in political ferment. In the past two months, nine cabinet ministers and two top justice officials have been fired from their jobs. Last week Vice Premier Jakub Berman, long regarded as Moscow's No. 1 man in Poland, resigned because of his "mistakes." Poland, stoutly Catholic, staunchly anti-Russian, has proved a hard outpost to rule...
...hrushchev's big thrust for power began back in 1937 when Stalin picked him to pacify the Ukraine, then in ferment as a result of Stalin's brutal collectivization of the rich farm lands. What made Khrushchev the right man for the job was that he was a peasant and could be expected to handle the peasants in terms they understood...
...from Maine to Key West, Author Carson covers the marginal world of the seashore with more than a specialist's curiosity. She evokes that sense of private peace and mystical wonder that Anne Lindbergh brought to her Gift from the Sea. She explores and celebrates a world of ferment and vitality, from the humble mole crab to the dog-whelk snail, from submarine forests to rock pools...