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...bouncy Premier also turned up at a Moscow meeting of agricultural experts and explained why he fired the Soviet Agriculture 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...
...Fortnight ago. Seaman Recruit Joseph Wilkowski reported to sick bay at the San Diego Naval Training Center. From his symptoms-including stiff neck and a rash-the medics decided they were up against meningitis, inflammation of the protective sheathing of the spinal cord and brain. And among the many microbes that can cause meningitis, they identified the cause of Wilkowski's illness as the meningococcus...
...around Ben-Gurion. Zogbaum is the British representative of a company called Careers Inc., and a recruiter of talent for some 67 U.S. corporations. His hostile reception by the British is a measure of their concern over the loss of scientific and technical talent to the U.S., summed up fortnight ago by Minister of Science Viscount Hailsham, who charged the U.S. with living "parasitically on other people's brains...
...campaign issue has now boomeranged. Critics are saying that because of the Administration's record on Cuba and the apparent flop of U.S. hopes in Western Europe, the U.S. has lost prestige abroad. At the President's press conference a fortnight ago, a newsman asked Kennedy whether official prestige polls "are now being taken." He admitted that they were, but he conspicuously passed up the chance to counter the critics' charges with figures. Instead, he dismissed prestige polls by saying that the U.S. "is known to be a defender of freedom and is known to carry major...
...prepared by a group of Ukrainian bishops at the council objecting to the presence of the Russians, tactfully brought up the subject of Archbishop Slipyi's long confinement. The Russians promised to do what they could, and last month notified Cardinal Bea that Slipyi would be freed. A fortnight ago, Bea's chief assistant. Dutch Monsignor Jan Willebrands, flew secretly to Moscow, escorted Slipyi by train to Vienna and then on to Rome. Slipyi had a personal audience with the Pope, has since been resting at the Byzantine-rite monastery of Grottaferrata. 15 miles southeast of Rome...