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...shape. To protect their trees, shippers have begun to wrap them in a new plastic mesh that costs about 25? a tree but ensures arrival in good condition. At Montreal's MacDonald College, Dr. A.R.C. Jones is grafting European pines onto Canadian trees to produce a greener, fuller tree that will retain its needles longer...
Died. Walter Deane Fuller, 82, president (1934-50), chairman (1950-57), and most recently director of the Curtis Publishing Co., business-side head of the company before its spectacular decline; of peritonitis following a ruptured appendix, just before he was to attend a directors'" meeting to ponder Curtis' troubles; in Philadelphia (see PRESS...
...better relations with the U.S. while keeping Russia's guard up. Sounding like a Western executive or politician promising that things were going to get efficient or he would know the reason why, Brezhnev proclaimed his intention "to combat resolutely red tape and window dressing." He called for "fuller use of the material incentive," meaning the profit motive, in "overcoming the lag of agricultural production." In an indirect slap at Chinese collectivization, Brezhnev announced the removal of "unfounded restrictions" on private farming-"the plots of land worked by farmers, factory and office workers"-restrictions that Brezhnev even more than...
...command, Party Secretary Jiri Hendrych, instead. At the same time, the Czechs announced sweeping economic reforms that effectively reject the Soviet system of centralized control, reoriented Czechoslovakia's lagging industry-once Eastern Europe's most advanced-along more Western lines. The profit motive is being given fuller play, and factory owners are permitted to work out their own supply-and-demand schedules...
Reaction was strongest among West European Communists. First to speak out were the French, who only a week before Khrushchev's fall had declared their formal independence from Moscow control; they were obviously determined to keep that independence. The French demanded "fuller information and necessary explanations," and Party Boss Waldeck Rochet announced that he would send a delegation to Moscow to get the answers...