Word: agronomist
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During World War I, long before the Maccabees of Leon Uris' Exodus, a tiny Jewish spy ring began operating against the Turkish rulers of Palestine. It was an unlikely group: an agronomist, a poet, a mule trader, a part-time fiddler, two frightened young women and a handful of farmers, none of whom had ever spied before. As this unusual and essentially accurate novel shows, it was a bitter and frustrating adventure-for those who lived through...
...visit to Hungary by again and again hitting his main theme: that the primary aim of the Communist revolution is achieving a prosperous Communism without resorting to nuclear war. Nor would he delude himself as to the difficulties of meeting that goal. When a Hungarian agronomist boasted at having surpassed the U.S. in wheat yield, Khrushchev put him in his place. "Don't fool yourself," he said. "The United States is doing better. The student in socialist countries is often afraid to work on the farm, afraid of cows and tractors. The agricultural institute in Moscow is too close...
...purge the nation of its Nazi past by finally facing the facts of how and why 4,000,000 Jews, Poles, Russians and gypsies perished at Auschwitz. Other grim facts from Hitler's hideous era were emerging at the euthanasia trial in Limburg, where Hans Hefelmann, 58, an agronomist, was in the dock, charged with complicity in the Nazis' monstrous euthanasia scheme...
...just-published book entitled Farms and Farmers in an Urban Age, Agronomist Edward Higbee, a University of Rhode Island professor, takes a refreshingly clear-eyed look at the miracle and the mess. Sponsored by the Twentieth Century Fund, the book cuts through the confusion of federal farm policy like a well-honed scythe leveling a weed patch...
...Agronomist Atwood is a Phi Beta Kappa out of the University of Wisconsin, where he simultaneously earned B.A. and M.A. degrees, later got his doctorate in plant cytology. He went to Cornell in 1944 as an expert on developing new kinds of hay and other forage crops, became dean of the graduate school in 1953 and provost of the university in 1955. Popular with the faculty, Atwood might have succeeded Cornell's retiring President Deane W. Malott. This spring the job went to an outsider, Carnegie Corporation Vice President James A. Perkins, and Emory feels all the richer...