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...Minister fortnight ago (TIME, March 15). He spent too much time writing directives from Moscow and too little time on the road, inspecting the farms he was ordering about. "The cows can't read directives," scolded Nikita. "All they want is a just exchange: 'You give me fodder, I give you milk.' " And of milk and meat, he admitted, there is "still very, very little. We have already criticized the writers for bad works. You obviously won't do as writers. Better get down to production...
...virgin lands of northern Kazakhstan, where the harvest would be far below expectations. In the Ukraine, bread basket of the Soviet Union, the wheat crop was "somewhat worse than last year." but party officials hoped to meet their overall grain quota by producing more corn (used for cattle fodder) than last year. The only bright spot that Khrushchev reported was in Great Russia, where a "record" grain harvest was reaped; a record by how much. Nikita discreetly declined...
...where fallout watchers are neither as prompt with their reports as the Japanese nor as frank, few figures have been released. But radioactivity is known to be showing its expected spring rise. In the Northern states cows are still feeding mostly on fodder gathered last fall before the Soviet tests, and their milk is still low in radioactivity. But Southern cows are already grazing on green grass, and the spring fallout that has collected on it is passing into their milk. As spring moves north and the grass greens up in Vermont and Wisconsin, the radioactivity of Northern milk will...
...Premier proposed a taste test to decide between his recommendation for high protein cattle feed (sugar beets, peas) or simple hay, which some scientists favor. Khrushchev, who obviously can afford more liberalism toward cattle than toward comrades, suggested that the cows decide. Said he: "Well now, Burenushka [Bossy], what fodder do you vote...
...were the fastest in the nation. A divorce-bound glamour puss had only to take up "residence" for six weeks at a guest ranch and gaming table. But in recent years, Nevada's divorce rate has fallen consistently. In fact, there has been such a drop in tabloid-fodder divorces that the New York Daily News has decided to close down its Reno bureau...