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Such a flood tide of plenty is enough to feed and clothe half the world-and, under the Food for Peace Program, $1.7 billion worth will, in fact, find its way to some 100 million people, provide school lunches for 40 million schoolchildren, help stave off famine and political unrest the world over. The residue, added to the nation's vast stockpile of surplus commodities, will merely compound what urban Americans have long accepted as "the farm mess...
...Johnsbury, Vt., population 6,809, could be the archetypal New England mill town. Except for city cousins and stray tourists, the prim stillness beneath the elms is rarely disturbed by outsiders. The world-and even St. Johnsbury itself-seems unaware that the brooding, red brick building across from the courthouse is the U.S.'s oldest unaltered art gallery still standing.* Founded in 1871, the St. Johnsbury Athenaeum grew out of the 19th century fashion for industrial tycoons to dabble in the arts. Horace Fairbanks, whose uncle invented the platform scale, and whose family built the invention into the Fairbanks...
Based in the U.S., the Airmobile Division will be ready to move at a moment's notice to any trouble spot in the world-and get there within a matter of hours, using Air Force C-130s to carry all men and equipment except the largest helicopters, which will be flown in giant C-133 turboprop cargo planes. The U.S. already has airfields in South Viet Nam and Thailand capable of handling such planes...
...Peking used little Albania as a sort of ventriloquist's dummy. Albania's fiercely anti-Khrushchev rulers said all the nasty things about Moscow that the Chinese obviously wanted to say themselves. Since Nikita Khrushchev's ouster amid signs of a Russian-Chinese thaw, the Communist world-and its observers in the West-have wondered whether the Albanian line might soften. Last week came the answer...
Died. Eugene Varga, 84, Soviet economist, who in 1946 stunned the Communist world-and discredited himself-by writing that 1) the U.S. would not suffer a severe postwar depression, 2) capitalist nations would not necessarily undergo revolution, and 3) Communism and capitalism could coexist, views that eventually returned Varga to grace after Stalin's death, when the Kremlin revamped its party line; in Moscow...