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...take off my nonexistent hat from my conforming haircut to Alan Miller [May 27]. His parents also I salute for not allowing their son to be railroaded into the stifling world of conformity. Our society is desperate for educated people who have retained a grain of individuality after the typically narrowing experience of a public school education. I know not the length of Superintendent Smith's hair, but he apparently wears it thick and long, perpetually covering both eyes and both ears. The barber is being called for the wrong person...
...Soviet admission of its economic woes comes at a time when Party Boss Leonid I. Brezhnev and Premier Aleksei N. Kosygin are launching a major attempt to correct the Soviet Union's underlying economic ill: its troubled agricultural system. Though a grain exporter under the Czars, Russia under the commissars is unable even to feed itself; it imported almost as much grain (25 million tons) during the past three years as India and China combined...
...uses irrigation, for the simple reason that the method is so costly that other nations prefer to grow more profitable crops and buy the wheat abroad. But the Soviet Union is apparently so set on self-sufficiency that it is willing to pay almost any price for home-grown grain...
...parts of New York's Westchester County play individual games against a computer. In one, called the "Sumerian game," a player-king is asked how he wants to use the natural resources of the ancient kingdom called Sumer. He must decide, for example, how many bushels of grain to store, how many to distribute to his people, how many to plant for the next crop. The computer informs him of the effects. It recently told one inept king: "Your population has decreased to zero. Call the teacher." Both in and out of class, a complex logic-stimulating game called...
...Indians hope, all this comes to pass, Indian nitrogenous-fertilizer production will rise from 243,884 tons in 1965 to 2,500,000 tons in five years. With that, grain production should go up from 76 million tons to 120 million tons. And that, says Mrs. Gandhi, would give India "a reasonable margin of safety...