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World War II destroyed Russia's livestock for a second time. It also loosened the Kremlin's iron grip on the Russian countryside. Peasant families nibbled at the state farms, decollectivized an estimated six million acres. They hoarded the grain and refused to give it up to the commissars. At first they got away with it. Fearful of massive famine in the wake of war, the Kremlin temporized with the muzhik's lust for land that he could call his own. The Council of Ministers agreed to let the state farms be worked by family groups...
Eight-week tryouts for all boards will start for all freshmen, sopohmores, and juniors interested. Casting aside his usual iron handed grip over the Crime's money sacks, the Business Managers last night announced that there would be free beer for all comers...
...Lords, we are shy of talking about these things . . . but when the moral law is weakened, all men are concerned. It is weakened [now] partly because the dogmas of the old theologians ... no longer grip and control conduct, partly because two great wars have shaken faith in the providential order on earth, and partly also because of the development of science, which teaches strange new doctrines in physiology and psychology, tending to weaken individual responsibility ... I believe that a great deal of nonsense is talked about this kind of quack psychology, and that we should return to common sense, which...
...trip last year, Leonard packed his grip and headed, among other places, for the rocket proving grounds at White Sands, N. Mex. for talks with a very special kind of scientist. You may remember the result: a cover story on space travel (TIME. Dec. 8, 1952), with Artist Artzybasheff's striking cover painting of a lunar robot (see above). Reaction to the space story came jet-fast to Leonard: five publishers asked if he would expand the story into book length. This week the book was published: Flight into Space (307 pp.), Random House ($3.50). It is Leonard...
...world heading towards more, not less free enterprise. Foreign investors are encouraged. There have been other reversals of Ataturk policy. Many emancipated Turks now fear "the black danger," the resurgence of the once powerful mullahs. Religion is strong today in Turkey. The country is 98% Moslem. Ataturk relaxed the grip of a reactionary and decadent church, but he could not destroy the faith of his people. Just as Ataturk had taken the best from them, discarded the rest, the Turks are showing a talent for preserving what they think best in his teaching...