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...wave of repression that followed Czar Alexander II's assassination in 1881, Great-Grandfather Joseph Evtushenko was banished from the Ukraine as a suspected subversive, died on the grueling 3,500-mile trek to eastern Siberia. Joseph's 18 children settled finally in Zima, a bleak lumber station on the trans-Siberian railroad, where Zhenya was born in 1933. Son of a concert singer and a geologist father. Zhenya spent his early childhood in the old quarter of Moscow. There he lived with his gifted, handsome mother Zinaida and her father, a grizzled artilleryman who was a lieutenant...
Forest fires destroy millions of dollars' worth of lumber each year. But in some areas fires run second to the boring, chomping insect hordes that eat their way through the forest, leaving wide patches in ruin. Last week a Russian scientist reported considerable success in a kind of bacteriological warfare against a pesky caterpillar that attacks Siberia's vast evergreen forests...
...Specialty. Son of a bank cashier, Harold Lee Giesler (pronounced Geese-ler) was born in Wilton Junction, Iowa. He was about to go to the University of Michigan when he developed eye trouble and went instead to Los Angeles, where he drove a horse-drawn lumber wagon. Soon he began studying law at U.S.C. and clerking in the office of Earl Rogers, a flamboyant attorney who was a kind of Edwardian Giesler. Rogers nicknamed him Jerry, and the young attorney got some of his first courtroom experience helping Rogers successfully defend Clarence Darrow against a charge of bribing jurors...
Sluggishness in housing sales has hurt lumber dealers, whose failures are up 15% from a year ago. The rise of the discount house has led to a 14% increase in bankruptcies among Main Street haberdashers, and lagging sales of durable goods have spurred a 22% rise in failures of small fabricators of iron and steel. Hardest hit are wholesalers of all kinds, with failures up 23%, because more and more retailers are buying directly from manufacturers to "cut out the middleman...
...leftist and nationalist road blocks, Frondizi opened the government-monopoly oilfields to private foreign companies; in two years they produced so much oil that Argentina no longer spends $300 million annually on petroleum, even has the beginnings of an exportable surplus. Frondizi is unloading wasteful, government-run enterprises from lumber mills to shipyards, has ordered featherbedders slashed from the government's railways. Foreign currency reserves are up sharply; unemployment is virtually wiped out. At the end of three hours and 20 minutes of talk, Kennedy was visibly impressed with both Frondizi and his record. Said the U.S. President...