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Hostile to the peasant and devoted to centralized authority, the Communist bureaucracy under Stalin sent out imperious orders telling the farmers when and what to plant, when and where to reap. Farm machinery, trucks, tractors, fertilizers and even seed were controlled by bureaus in Moscow that drove farmers to frenzy with missed deadlines and frustrating delays. When Khrushchev took over, he broke up the tractor stations and scattered the mechanized farm implements among individual collective farms. A massive effort was made to streamline the system by packing the bureaucrats off to the countryside. As a result, collective farms...
Twice in the past month, the U.S. has confidently expected to reap sweeping propaganda advantages from unmistakable evidences of Communist brutality. But there was no world outcry over the blockading of the border between East and West Berlin; and the private dismay of neutralists over the Soviet testing was hidden in guarded words at Belgrade. Last week, in a departure from his past policy, President Kennedy publicly warned that U.S. foreign aid in the future would go primarily to those countries whose thinking comports with that of the U.S.-and whose professed neutralism is not merely a disguise...
Once upon a time, Americans were just Republicans, Democrats, Elks or Masons. Now they back ACTION (American Council to Improve Our Neighborhoods) and CARE (Cooperative for American Relief Everywhere) and SHARE (Share Happily and Reap Endlessly) and TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly). Unionists support COPE (Committee on Political Education). Negroes support CORE (Congress of Racial Equality). In Little Rock, moderates stayed on the school board through STOP (Stop This Outrageous Purge). In New Orleans, they faced up to integration with SOS (Save Our Schools). In Atlanta this fall, moderates will do likewise through HOPE (Help Our Public Education) and OASIS...
...works contracts, his heavy interests in sugar, textiles, cattle, insurance, and his monopolies of salt, cigarettes, lumber, matches, milk and peanut oil. When the coffin lid shut on Trujillo's business career last week, he was worth an estimated $800 million. Feeding the Chaos. The man who will reap the whirlwind, rushing home from Paris in an Air France jet chartered for $28,000, was Rafael Leonidas ("Ramfis...
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