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While the get-well-soon notes continued to flood in, the President last week gave the latest medical bulletin on his wife's recovery. "She's giving me a few harsh words," he told a G.O.P. audience in Grand Rapids. "I'm being silenced more and more-and that's a sign she is getting better...
...belief that both the courts and the press have been overreacting to the Sheppard decision since it came down in 1966. I have seen trial judges issue gag orders when they, because of their own harsh conduct, have been the chief beneficiaries. I have seen seasoned journalists cower in the face of oppressive orders and then insist on their right to print a defendant's criminal record the night before jury selection begins...
Then came 1972. Bad weather started to plague so much of the world's crop land that many experts conclude that the climate itself is changing (see story page 80). Harsh winters, droughts or typhoons cut output in the Soviet Union, Argentina, Australia, the Philippines and India. Off the coast of Peru, a change in ocean currents and overfishing decimated the anchovy catch, a major source of protein for animal feed. In Southeast Asia and parts of Africa, the peanut crop-providing mainly animal feed and cooking oil-fell far below normal. All told, the world's food...
Some nations might be tempted to try emulating China, a country whose name was once synonymous with famine but which is now approaching self-sufficiency in food. The Chinese Communist leadership abolished peasants' private holdings and communalized all plots. Armies of laborers, often under harsh conditions, built irrigation systems, terraced farm lands in mountainous regions, food distribution networks and hundreds of small "backyard" fertilizer factories. All pretense of freedom disappeared, a price (at least in the eyes of the West) that may be too high for most L.D.C.s...
...Closely allied with Nikita Khrushchev, she became Minister of Culture in 1960 and the most powerful woman in the Soviet Union. As Culture Minister, "Baba Katya" (Grannie Kate) sponsored an upsurge of artistic exchange with the West, but shifted after Patron Khrushchev's ouster to a policy of harsh repression (notably against Alexander Solzhenitsyn...