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...lived with hope and excitement through the days of Lenin's victory could not help feeling betrayal and disgust at the severe, quasi-dictatorial methods which the government now employed to deal with an increasingly desperate situation. The miniscule rations in the cities, the forced requisitioning of peasant grain, the growth of a centralized, omnipotent bureaucratic machine-all seemed to belie the straightforward, liberationist goals to which the revolution had aspired...
...homes after the end of the civil war and saw for the first time how difficult life was for their families in the countryside. They, too, blamed the party for most of the nation's ills; after all, had the government not carried out the forcible seizure of peasant grain, and in many instances denied the farmers even a subsistence of their own produce...
Production Explosion. The Green Revolution dawned in 1944, when four young men funded by the Rockefeller Foundation gathered in the hills outside Mexico City and began experimenting with what eventually became a strain of unusually hardy, plump-grained wheat. Buoyed by their success, the Rockefeller Foundation joined with the Ford Foundation in 1962 and began work at Los Banos in the Philippines on an equally miraculous rice strain. The result was IR5 and IR8, experimentally introduced in 1964. Their arrival touched off a production explosion in the grain bowls of the world...
...Green Revolution is also compelling countries that have long produced grain surpluses-including the U.S.-to re-examine their own agricultural policies. As rice-rich Thailand has already discovered, the markets for rice are rapidly disappearing, while many wheat-importing countries may soon be producing surpluses of their own. The fact that Washington may eventually have to readjust acreage allotments and agricultural subsidies as a result...
HENRI MATISSE may be the best proof since Shakespeare of the irrelevance of the facts of a great artist's life to the genius of his work. Not that the facts are unknown. They are copious. Henri Matisse was born 100 years ago into the family of a grain merchant. He took up the study of law and turned seriously to painting only when he was 22. He married, had three children and emphasized to interviewers that he lived an entirely ordinary, suburban life. Outwardly he was reserved, cautious, methodical-in style of life the lawyer still. He could...