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...Siberia continues to evoke terror in European Russia. Moscow University graduates are plunged into despair when ordered to emigrate east of the Urals. Workers and peasants are so reluctant to settle in the virgin lands that the Soviet government must tempt them with tax exemptions, bank credits and free grain...
Factory chimneys, grain elevators, the steel pylons of power lines rise above the plains. In the foothills of the Urals, Magnitogorsk lies on the slope of a magnetic mountain, which is fed ton by ton into the city's open-hearth and blast furnaces, making it the greatest metallurgical center in the Soviet Union. Nearby Sverdlovsk used to be known as Ekaterinburg, and was chiefly famous as the spot where, in 1918, the Bolsheviks executed Czar Nicholas II and his family. Today its 800,000 people build machine tools, TV sets, railroad cars and ball bearings...
...from an average 22 Ibs. per month to 17.6 Ibs. Vegetables were rare, and fish was hard to find; no meat has been distributed since the Chinese New Year last February. It has been a harsh, cruel year, and another like it seems in prospect. Best estimates are that grain production this year will reach no more than 180 million tons, 40 million tons short of the target, and actually less than the harvest in 1957 when there were 60 to 70 million fewer mouths to feed...
Without exception, companies that use business games profess to regard them merely as training devices, insist that the results are not taken into account in hiring or promotions. But most players take such assurances with a grain of salt and, because they believe the results can influence their careers, grow grimly serious. "It is amazing," reports Remington Rand Executive Jim Evans, who conducts games on the Univac. "You'll see grown men cry when they come out with a loss...
...Passed in the House and Senate and sent to the President a compromise farm bill providing a mandatory 10% cut in wheat acreage and continuing for another year the present voluntary corn and grain reduction programs. Although the President had little choice but to sign the bill, it was a far cry from the program recommended by his Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman. Among the Freeman proposals turned down by the Congress: a scheme for setting up farmer-Government committees to set subsidy levels for each commodity...