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...buildup of heavy industry. He even found himself praising the U.S. to make a point. Khrushchev is impressed by the way "Americans have succeeded in achieving a high level of animal husbandry." The answer for Soviet Russia, he said, is the widespread U.S. planting of hybrid corn for fodder. Khrushchev urged that collectives in European Russia should plant U.S. hybrid corn, and demanded an eightfold increase in Soviet corn production by 1960. That will take some doing...
Pridi the Communist. Last week, with appropriate fanfare, Red China introduced Pridi as "Public Leader of Thailand." Pridi posed carefully as a genuine Thai nationalist, urging Thais never to serve as "cannon fodder for imperialism," but instead to "wage a struggle" against the U.S. "Although the forces of peace have achieved a tremendous victory in restoring peace in Indo-China," cried Pridi, "U.S. imperialists and the Thai reactionary government are still lording it . . . They are bent on using Thailand as a base for aggression...
...Last September Nikita Khrushchev admitted the shortcomings of the Stalin program and announced a program of incentives to persuade the peasants to grow more. The Kremlin said consolingly that there was enough bread grain, but Khrushchev complained of severe shortages of livestock, vegetables (particularly potatoes), coarse grain and other fodder...
...introduces his hero right in the maternity ward. A calving elephant has an "auntie" or sister elephant who helps pick a lying-in spot: Bandoola's mother and auntie picked a site near a river bend with a giant tree for shade and seven-foot elephant grass for fodder. The night before Bandoola was born, the two elephants trampled the grass round the tree till they flattened an area the size of a circus ring...
...thinks the GOP will try to parlay its attacks on Truman into long range political cannon-fodder. "In tennis they say when you find an opponent with a wooden leg you force him from side to side, forward and back. You want to tire him. In politics you do much the same thing. The Democrats for twenty years thought they had a man with a wooden leg in Herbert Hoover. Now the Republicans have found their man with a wooden leg: Harry Truman...