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...collectives and return to their private plots. But, Marxist that he is, Gomulka surrounded the peasants with a maze of economic controls. Last year, when the government pegged the price of potatoes too high, the peasants sold their potatoes to the state instead of using them as pig feed, then slaughtered their pigs prematurely, thus sharply reducing the pork supply for 1959. State price fixing produced much the same results with cattle, and on top of all this, a severe drought last summer cut deeply into meager fodder stocks...
...other non-military departments. Their crime seems to have been "rightist opportunism," Communist jargon for those who argued that Red China's economic leap forward should be executed in slower and more orderly fashion. Though Peking is now grudgingly "tidying up the communes," discarding the wasteful backyard pig iron furnaces and giving its weary and befuddled population something of a breathing spell, it cannot admit failure. Neither can Red China's top leaders, still apparently unaffected by the purge, tolerate having men about them able to say, "I told...
...equipment to the site. "We built a hospital without water or electricity," says Dr. Dooley. "We had 35 beds, 50 mats, and a daily sick call of 100 persons." He insisted that even the poorest patients pay some fee, arguing that charity undermines self-respect, usually collected a pig as fee for an operation, a chicken for delivering a child...
...gasser," who's "kooky" and "all that jazz." But in no time at all, the gassers have become "marvy," the jazz is "jive," and people start "yacking away." An echo from the past informs everyone to "stay loose." Another, from the Dark Ages, adds: "In a pig...
...last week underwent the political equivalent of a cross burning. A delegation of 32 racists from around the state descended upon his office to demand his answers to a prepared list of loaded questions. Sample: "Did it ever occur to you that you are being used as a guinea pig by the Communist-Jewish integrators to sample the political sentiment of the South for a most distasteful candidate, John Kennedy?" Patterson, caught in a web he had helped spin, retorted a bit helplessly. "Kennedy is a friend," he said, "and so far as I know, I'm not being...