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...take many of the issue's photographs. Reporter-Researcher John Kohan, who speaks fluent Russian and was making his fourth trip to the U.S.S.R., visited a psychiatric outpatient center, rode with an ambulance team, went behind the scenes at the old Moscow circus, spent a day at a tractor factory...
...reality is surely somewhere between these two extremes. TIME Reporter-Researcher John Kohan visited the Minsk tractor factory, one of the largest manufacturers of farming equipment in the Soviet Union. His report on the vast industrial complex that spreads out over almost 250 acres and employs 25,000 people...
Almost every aspect of a Minsk employee's life is centered around his factory. The tractor plant provides schools for workers and their children, summer camps for kids and vacation cabins for adults. The factory-built "palace of culture" boasts 65 amateur theatrical groups, choirs and dance companies, and there is also a giant sports stadium...
...chose to energize the legalistic and noncommittal jargon of the Corporation's case-by-case review policy by chiding companies that fail to operate in the interests of South African Blacks. Marking this new commitment, it changed a decision of a year ago and supported a resolution requiring Caterpillar Tractor to investigate the transfer of machinery from the private to the military sectors in South Africa. The Corporation, noting the sudden change of the ACSR, abstained on the resolution and said it would not reconsider the vote until the ACSR accounted for its new conviction. Detlev F. Vagts '49, professor...
...gathered in front of the Corporation building in April to protest the Corporation's decision to abstain on two resolutions which the ACSR had supported--one that would prohibit IBM from selling computers to the South African government and another that would set up a committee to review Caterpillar Tractor sales to the South African military...