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...reaching free Hong Kong and by the hysterical tone of Communist reprimands, masses of peasants are refusing to sell their crops to the government at the fixed low rates prescribed by law. The peasants, squeezed by taxes, "voluntary patriotic contributions," and high living costs, are also letting farm production lag; they do not want to produce themselves into higher tax brackets or extend their tiny plots, for deathly fear of becoming landlords...
...more serious is the "near crisis" in agriculture revealed by Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, who doubles as party secretary and overlord of Soviet farming. Khrushchev succeeded Malenkov in Stalin's old job as boss of the party; the fact that he confessed a "serious lag" in food production attests to the growing alarm of the Soviet leaders. The facts, as Khrushchev gave them: ¶ A shortage of cattle in 1952 equal to 22 million head. ¶ A decline in pork, from 5,000,000 tons in 1940 to 1,600,000 in 1952. ¶ A drop in butter production...
...Harvard Glee Club reaffirmed its position as one of the foremost college choruses in the country. Lotti's Crucifixus was rendered with impeccable diction and great emotional intensity. Mr. Woodworth distinguished carefully between flowing counter-point and contrasting chant-like sections, and he never permitted the tempo to lag. After this elegant bow to the Baroque a selection from Berlioz' Damnation of Faust did not fare so well. The attacks were often uncertain, and the singers almost shouted some of the high notes. A lack of preparation was apparent in some nearly disastrous mistakes and the frantic tempo...
Perkins said the extension, unanimously adopted at the Housemasters meeting on Wednesday night, was made because of a dissatisfaction among both students and Housemasters with the half-hour lag between the old 8 p.m. deadline and the start of football dances...
...Alabama found that, although the number of its college students has gone up 903% since 1900, its college enrollments still lag way behind other states. Today, it has only 36 college graduates for every 1,000 citizens, compared to the national average of 60. The only state with a worse score: Arkansas, with...