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Going with the Grain...
After Agriculture Committee Chairman Harold Cooley helped push the Administration's feed-grain bill through...
Communist China faces mass starvation. Bad weather and worse organization had cut the country's agricultural production for the third successive year. The Reds have pledged half a billion dollars worth of their needed foreign exchange to buy grain from Canada and Australia. Millions of Chinese are reportedly suffering from beriberi, and though Communist functionaries have been ruthlessly willing to ignore civilian wants to concentrate on industrialization, reluctant economic planners have now lowered 1961's investment rate and even frozen some scheduled industrial construction until Red China's desperate agricultural crisis can be finally reckoned with...
...supposed to have been eliminated long since, have reappeared in many Chinese cities, are now so bold that they often enter the few permitted restaurants to bully the diners. Small food riots have become fairly common, and so have raids by hungry villagers on the carefully locked-up communal grain stores. The police-enforced compliant silence of the people is being broken, too. Bitter rhymes and slogans mocking the Communists are now quite often reported by refugees." Concluded Columnist Alsop: "The breakdown of discipline must mean that the conditions are beginning to exist in which a small spark can light...
...Touch of the Heart. Zorach is still guided by the shapes of nature-the swirl of a grain, the contour of a stone-but his art is as emotional as it is visual. The Wild Beast has been domesticated, but with such an ever fresh simplicity that he cannot fail to touch the heart. "My children, my wife, the animals I know, the people who enter my life," says he, "things that are deeply a part of me and in which I see a relationship to life through movement and form and inner spirit-these are my material...