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...khaki farmers go, Jagjit must be accounted progressive. In all the 600,000 villages of India, only i% of the farmers till their land with anything more up to date than a metal-tipped stick. There are only 34,000 tractors in the whole country. But even if tractors were available in any quantity, most farmers' plots are too tiny to justify their use. The government has persuaded only a few to band together in cooperatives. For an Indian feels deeply attached to his own land and hates the idea of working on someone else's; nor does...
...lifetime of golf. He was raised, quite literally, on a golf course. His father, Milfred Jerome ("Deacon") Palmer, was greenskeeper and teaching pro at the club in Latrobe, 30 miles east of Pittsburgh. As a toddler, Arnie rode be tween his father's legs on the tractor-mower, romped in the rough, built castles in the sand traps. He was just seven when he talked his six-year-old sister Lois Jean into lugging around his heavy golf bag, went out one morning and broke 100 for the first time. "They wouldn't believe us," he recalls, adding with...
...meets tractor. Boy loses tractor. Boy gets tractor. Such was the dreary, propagandists plot of most movies made in Stalin's Russia. Enter Comrade Khrushchev, followed by a babble of rumors that tractors were out, humanity was in, and a new generation of genius was about to restore the prestige enjoyed in the '20s by the Communist cinema. Last week, thanks to the recent U.S. -Soviet film-exchange agreement, two of the new Russian films could be seen in the U.S. Genius was not in evidence, but then neither were the tractors...
Back in the '20s and '30s, U.S. firms helped build tractor plants in Stalingrad and a steel mill at Magnitogorsk; and U.S. engineers helped build Russia's great dam on the Dnieper...
...Trouble. Layoffs were spreading in other industries. At General Electric's appliance park in Louisville, 28% of the 11,000 employees have been furloughed. Caterpillar Tractor has laid...