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Finding Scapegoats. Instead of the whopping 375 million tons of food grains originally claimed, Peking admitted a harvest of only 250 million-and most Western experts scaled that figure down to 210 million, only 25 million more than 1957, the year before the Great Leap Forward. The cotton total was cut by a third. Of the boasted 11 million tons of steel, only 8,000,000 were found "usable in industry." By this summer, the figures had fallen so low that Peking refused to announce them, but even observers friendly to the Reds estimate grain production at a mere...
...army is mollified by getting plenty of food. On 700 large farms the army raises its own hogs, vegetables and grain. Enlistments far exceed normal requirements, since, as a refugee in Hong Kong put it, "the army's the one place you can get some meat...
...should be given short pants and even wear them in winter so everyone could see that they hadn't grown up enough to wear normal-size pants. That's a joke, of course, comrades,'' added Jolly Nikita, "but I would like you to find a grain of truth in that joke...
Changing Faces. In Kazakhstan, key to Khrushchev's grandiose scheme to plant grain in the virgin lands southeast of the Urals, the visitor from Moscow angrily changed faces, interrupted a regional party leader who reported that the grain harvest had been "reduced" this year by shouting: "That would be expressing yourself mildly. You did not reduce it, you wrecked...
...Wendell Willkie, had no patience left for family troubles. With his wife's divorce litigation dragging into its sixth month, Willkie countered with a $1,000,000 suit against his in-laws for alienation of Mrs. Willkie's affections. Willkie's father-in-law: Millionaire Minneapolis Grain Man Peavy Heffelfinger, 64, nephew of famed 1890s Yale Guard "Pudge" Heffelfinger and onetime finance chairman of the Republican National Committee...