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Actually each successive Five-Year Plan (piatiletka) is a set of production targets which the state planners then exhort the Russian people to attain by superhuman effort. The sixth piatiletka (1956-60) is more than usually superhuman: in the next five years heavy industry must be up 70%, pig iron up 70%, steel up 51%, coal up 49%, oil up 100%, building up 52%, consumer goods up 60%; in agriculture grain production must increase 80%, while labor efficiency on state farms must rise 70%, on collectives 100%. Incentives are a calculated feature of piatiletki: 55 million workers will...
...invariably wears the expression of a peevish raisin. For a time, the spectator is able to identify himself with the plight of Henry, who is said to be in mortal danger from a frightful bore. As things turn out, the script is not referring to Lana-just some wild pig. So the boar gores, but the gore bores, and the only consolation is offered by Sir Cedric Hardwicke, who is all dressed up like a wizard and looks sorry he did it, even for all that money. "What will be," says Sir Cedric mysteriously, "will...
...Seeing the new German generals [Dec. 5] brings back the realization that Russia has some justification for wanting Germany separated. I believe you have jumbled the story titles, "Return of the Pig" and "An Army Is Born." They should read: "An Army Is Returned" and "The Pig Is Born." CHARLES S. ALLEN Norman, Okla...
...television the first 600 German prisoners returning from the Soviet Union, Hendrik van Dam, Secretary-General of the Jewish Council in Germany, saw a lined, familiar face show up on the screen. A few minutes later his phone rang, and an excited voice shouted: "Did you see the pig...
...Some men there are love not a gaping pig; And Some, that others, are when mad the if they bagpipe behold sings a i' the cat; nose, Cannot contain their urine...