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...Potato Chips. Lysenko's lank hair is now grey, but at 62, the old plant breeder still brings the buoyant spirit of religious revival to the Khrushchevian task of boosting yields. Sunburnt and dust-covered, he travels the vast land, bawls orders to the peasants in his hoarse, high-pitched voice: "Keep the weeds down." "Put on more manure." "Thin out in case of drought." Khrushchev, another peasant's son from the Ukraine, understands and appreciates that kind of talk. Lysenko tells virgin land pioneers not to plow their land in the fall but to plant their grain...
...Potato. U.S. Admiral Robert L. Dennison, commander in chief of the Atlantic Fleet, radioed an offer of "safe-conduct" to Galvão and his ship. Concerned for the Santa Maria's passengers, Dennison promised not to interfere should Galvão enter a harbor to let them land. Galvão replied that he was willing to negotiate with U.S. authorities aboard the Santa Maria or at a neutral port. So saying, he ordered a radical change in course, veered toward the coast of Brazil...
Brazil reacted as if it had been handed a hot potato. U.S. planes, which had been refueling at Belém and Recife while keeping an eye on the Santa Maria, were suddenly ordered grounded. Trying to keep on the right side of everyone, the Brazilian Foreign Ministry announced that if the Santa Maria entered Brazilian waters she would be returned to her Portuguese owners, but that Galvão and his 70 men could have political asylum...
...arms and legs, like reflections in an amusement park's crazy mirror, seem to change size and shape continually. The ground rolls like an ocean swell. The simplest tasks become all but impossible. Victims are unable to sew without making their hand a pin cushion, to peel a potato without cutting it in half, to crack an egg without smashing it. The ears ring...
...amounts of pebbles," recalls Vincent's great uncle, Chief Farmer Abel Thibout, "the peasants shook their heads and said, 'Don't remove them; they shade the soil and help the crops grow.' " But in eight months the city kibbutzers had cleared 185 acres and planted potatoes, beans, barley and other grains. Their potato crop astonished local government agriculture experts, and they have done so well with their other crops that government agencies have lent them better land, banks are considering loans, and property values in the neighborhood are on the rise...