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Iron Monuments. Agriculture is China's jugular vein, and the year's critical period is the winter crop harvest, which takes place in spring and early summer. Current estimates are that this year's crop will fluctuate around the 180-185 million tons of grain achieved last year-a good but not a sensationally good harvest...
...small cooking pot. Each citizen also received a ticket for two bars of toilet soap a year, and one of laundry soap per month, and there were ration cards for cooking oil, flour, sugar and sweets. The meat ration in Tsinan is currently three ounces a month, and grain is 37 pounds for men doing "medium-heavy" work. (Most towns also have free markets, at which food is available off ration at high prices.) Says Belhomme: "People are not hungry today, but they are definitely not full...
...over whose shot felled which animal first, dovemen retrieve one another's downed birds, happily transmit information about good hunting grounds, and try not to sprinkle the neighboring encampment with No. 6 bird shot. They get on famously with farmers in the richly irrigated valley, who find the grain-eating doves a nuisance (the dove population consumes 300 tons of seed a day). What's more, each hunter spends $30 a day, and to egg him on, the local innkeepers and Chambers of Commerce provide "dove festivals" in every little town. There are entertainments,*free dances, trapshooting contests...
Even Khrushchev once sneered, "The workers' councils are very good when they are propped up by American grain and meat." Reversing himself, Khrushchev called the councils a "progressive development" and said Russia was facing the question of "whether or not conditions are ripe for the democratization of management. Unless there is a force of public opinion our managers tend to become autocrats. Of course, your system may not be totally in line with the Leninist principle of unified leadership...
...hair a stately white, his face deeply lined, Illia personifies almost everything that Argentina craves and lacks -maturity and stability. Ever since the military ousted President Arturo Frondizi in March 1962, the rich land of grain and beef has drifted from crisis to crisis and from military faction to military faction, amid needless inflation, trade deficits and an eroding peso. Just before last month's twice-delayed popular elections finally came up, there were strong fears that the military would annul the result to prevent followers of the exiled Dictator Juan Perón from returning to power through...