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Short of Plan. Tikhon Sokolov, Party Secretary of the Virgin Lands Territory of North Kazakhstan, admitted that poor farming methods as well as a rainy spring had knocked the region's harvest down to 73% of plan. "We are criticizing you for this," snapped Khrushchev. "We are taking it to heart," Sokolov replied. Sokolov said his region had boosted meat production, but 3,000,000 sheep had died for lack of feed. Unaccountably, Khrushchev said nothing. But when Sokolov said his region planned to raise hogs for a market weight of 110 kilograms (242 lbs.), the boss broke...
...from which they could commute to work on the farm. When Khrushchev, as Stalin's farm troubleshooter, first brought up this idea back in 1949, his rival, Georgy Malenkov, attacked it as wildly irresponsible, and Stalin called it off before it was even tried. Trying to please Khrushchev, Sokolov now said that his region planned to build agro-cities on big state farms to replace villages. Khrushchev has approved plans to create the first such agro-city 20 miles south of Moscow. There peasants uprooted from their scattered traditional one-room log huts (isbas) are to have separate...
Widowed Mrs. Woikin, first of Canada's 14 spies to go on trial, had worked with the Soviet Embassy's Major Sokolov, a "handsome man." The major and his wife had been most friendly. Again & again they pressed her to come to their home. "They were very intelligent people," sighed Mrs. Woikin...
Emma Woikin listened quietly while her defense counsel pleaded her case. Said he: She was "flattered by the attention paid her by Major Sokolov, who was what might be termed an attractive, good-looking man." The judge was unimpressed: two and a half years for Emma Woikin in Kingston Penitentiary...
Mumbling Through. Russia's haughty silence on the bomb was broken by A. Sokolov of Moscow's New Times. He took a crack at "atom democracy." meaning those in the U.S. who thought a monopoly on atomic bomb production would further the U.S. conception of democracy...