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...their slide-rule approach to life, the Communists have always had their worst troubles with agriculture. Nothing in Marx or Engels tells how to make a peasant milk the state's cow as zealously as his own or to treat the state's tractor as carefully as if he owned it. And nature itself has a way of defying the drafters of five-year plans. Both Moscow and Peking were complaining last week...
...tractor train will head for the South Pole from Byrd Station in the Ellsworth Highland, exploring unknown mountains and marking the 800-mile route with bamboo poles thrust into the ice each 1/5 mile...
Even in English, Mayakovsky's writing (13 volumes) has the untamed drive of a runaway tractor. Though much of it to a Western ear is talented but tiring rabble-rousing, in the lyrics and in the love poems speaks a genuine poet's voice-speaking more truly than any party-line drivel. "Always to shine/to shine everywhere/to the very deeps of the last days...
High in the Rocky Mountains, a giant tractor eased a six-room house along a steep, narrow road. As workmen loaded another house onto a huge steel trailer, a foreman shouted to the anxious bystanders, "Don't you worry, folks, the coffee you left behind will be a bit cooler when it gets there, but not a drop will be spilled...
...evicted from his house. His white grocer and druggist cut off his credit. Two young couples-the John Jamersons and the William Thorns-were also ordered out of their houses; months later, the houses are still vacant. Jobie Mosby, 38, lost his $4-a-day job as a tractor driver. His wife, Fannie Mae, 29, a $2.50-a-day ironing woman, was fired. Neither has found jobs since-and they have eleven children to support. John McFerren, 35, could buy neither groceries nor gasoline for his small country store and filling station. Allen Yancy Jr., 25, a chemistry and mathematics...