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...sixth level of rubble. Mellaart, who has roamed the Anatolian Plateau off and on for a decade, found the remains of brick houses with windows, double doors, walls three feet thick and carefully constructed staircases leading to a second story. The discovery of grinding platforms and storage bins for wheat, barley, peas and lentils convinced Mellaart that the Late Neolithic inhabitants of Hacilar were successful farmers who probably had domesticated cattle...
...short, the new champion is an aristocratic three-year-old whose bouffant hairdo is kept in place by a strategically located rubber band. At her kennel in Mahopac, N.Y., Sister is kept saturated in baby oil and hooded in Pliofilm. Her life is sunless and funless. Her diet features wheat germ and chopped beef, her home is carefully air-conditioned, and she gets ultraviolet light treatments. But sunshine? Never. Twice a day Sister exercises in an "outdoor" run -shingle-roofed, walled with Plexiglas and floored with specially selected gravel. Only when she is being prepared for show is Sister permitted...
...laboratory in a cornfield outside Moscow, Lysenko gets every facility and encouragement. He goes right on trying to change nature in far-out ways by grafting pine branches on fir trees, injecting the blood of Plymouth Rock chickens into Buff Orpington hens, trying to turn wheat into rye. He complains righteously against Science Academy President Aleksandr Nesmeyanov (TIME cover, June 2, 1958) for criticizing his experiments. Says he pointedly: "I am infinitely happy that my modest work is highly prized by the party government and Nikita Khrushchev in person...
What is more, to millions of Americans the game of basketball is more than a sport -it is the most important event on winter's social calendar. Once the winter wheat is in the ground in towns like Sharon Springs, Kans., there is little else to do but watch the games on Tuesday and Friday nights in the $190,000 school gym, the grandest building in the county. In Ohio, the citizens of Bethel Township regularly drop past Ray Morrison's general store to rock on their heels around the stove and talk of the local high school...
...order for barley. Last week Agriculture Minister Alvin Hamilton rose in Parliament to announce that the Red traders had expanded the order beyond his most optimistic hopes: just before taking off for Hong Kong, they signed a $60 million cash deal for 28 million bushels of wheat and 12,133,000 more bushels of barley...