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...forbidding Virgin Lands of Central Asia, where Khrushchev set out in 1954 to create a vast new granary, erosion now threatens to turn millions of acres into a dust bowl; most of the new croplands last year failed even to return their seed grain. His hasty campaign to plow under fallow grasslands has impaired huge areas of once-fertile soil since 1958. Khrushchev's evangelical efforts in 1961 to promote mass sowing of corn did more harm than good, as he himself admitted at the meeting...
Time, in its puerile eagerness to portray the Harvard undergraduate as giddy and faddish, has stumbled blindly past the deepest source of Bogart's popularity. Ah, Time, beneath that rugged grain lie vast wellsprings of tender vulnerability. Behind the carpe diem don't-give-a-damn throb the profundities of ultimate concern. To Time, Bogey, in sex as in all, is hard-boiled egoistic opportunist. We know what he is really after. A little bare Thou...
...rather than train someone new, because experienced hands give them better work and save them the expense of added fringe benefits for a new employee. The industries with some of the heaviest overtime are autos, where workers spend 5.4 extra hours a week in the plant, cement (6.6 hr.), grain mill products (7.3 hr.), and paper (5.6 hr.). Thus, even with overtime, few workers work more than a 46-hour week...
While Russia's grain shortage makes the news, it is only the most prominent of a whole basketful of economic problems that plague the Communist bloc. COMECON, the eight-nation group created by the Communists in frank imitation of the Common Market, not only has failed to relieve the economic chaos in Eastern Europe, but in many ways has actually worsened it. So nightmarish is their job that the satellite economists have begun to grumble openly...
...sick man of Eastern Europe. The country has mammoth debts abroad, and practically no money to pay them with. Overcentralization of planning and overemphasis on heavy industry have reduced its already weak economy to a shambles. Poor harvests and poorer planning have forced it to import huge amounts of grain, thus dangerously depleting its foreign currency reserves. Typical of Poland's plight is the condition of its national airline, LOT, which is being gradually grounded by a bizarre price structure, antiquated equipment, and the failure of Russia to come through with promised modern planes...