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...resume doing business. In Belgrade the two governments signed a short-term agreement, bartering Russian crude oil, manganese, cotton and newsprint for Yugoslavian ethyl alcohol, tobacco, meat and hemp. Tito had also hoped to get some wheat for Yugoslavia, but the Russians, who have been having serious trouble with grain production (TIME. June 14), confessed that they had none to spare...
Although the blighted harvest will hurt many farmers severely, it will also help to relieve a nagging national problem. Bumper crops in 1951-53 crammed Canadian grain elevators with unsold wheat. The poor 1954 crop will help reduce the huge surplus. And, since the same nasty weather that plagued Canada all summer also prevailed in Western Europe, prospects are that Canada will be able to boost its wheat exports to Europe this year...
...children, TV offered a number of nondenominational Sunday schools. On Fourth R-Religion, pretty Lori Darmi explained how bread is made, giving credit to God for the grain and to Pepperidge Farm for the skills needed to prepare the loaf. On the filmed They Live By, parents were briefed on how to answer such adolescent questions as "Where is God?" (the answer: "Everywhere"). Exploring God's World spent an agreeable half-hour exhibiting sea shells that were shaped like harps or striped like zebras or wore fur coats (to guard the shells against acids in Alaskan waters...
Anyway, the Englishman takes out a $2,000,000 insurance policy, and a few days later is drowned at sea. Or was he? The insurance company sends Dana Andrews to investigate. Dana's way is barred by large numbers of hostile fauna - cobras, stuffed leopards, baboons, Jeanne Grain, elephants, hippos - but he comes through grandly, with nothing more than a case of explorer's knee, to the climactic "Mr. Henderson, I presume...
...Henderson's opinion, he does indeed presume, and soon there is the usual thrashing about in the undergrowth, and rather more than the usual slithering of crocodiles toward dainty feminine morsels. And when Heroine Grain says for what must surely be the thousandth time in this kind of picture. "I can make a bandage out of my petticoat," even the lion who is about to eat her looks...