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The two chapters of parasites and fungi are by no means all of the Agriculture study. "Phony Peach and Peach Mosaic" not only gets to the heart of the annoying fruit virus problem, but also contains some rather caustic remarks about "the phony peach project of 1929." Other chapters of...

Author: By Dennis E. Brown, | Title: Plant Diseases | 12/12/1953 | See Source »

Captain Jan was grilled by British intelligence; he agreed to broadcast behind the Iron Curtain on the BBC's Polish program; then he called a press conference. He told of the famous trip from New York in 1949, when Communist Gerhart Eisler was stowed aboard and delivered to Poland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Asylum Granted | 7/6/1953 | See Source »

Ira Cardiff got into the apple business as a Ph.D. from Columbia who went to Washington to run the state's agricultural testing station. He soon saw that the future of the apple industry lay in dried fruit, and took over the Yakima Valley's biggest packing plant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: Upsetting the Applecart | 12/22/1952 | See Source »

Living well off its rich 5,000 acres of timber, its 3,000 in grapes and pears, its 8,000 in olive and almond groves, with 5,000 peasants to tend them. Lord Bridport saw and felt the yearning for change that began sweeping through the peasantry of Italy. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: One Man Land Reform | 5/26/1952 | See Source »

First-nighters sat through the first act in a ho-hum mood, but the second brought them to life with Billy's fight with one of Claggart's henchmen and Claggart's bitter monologue rejoicing in his own depravity -sung by Basso Frederick Dalberg. Britten's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Britten's Seventh | 12/10/1951 | See Source »

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