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...Kazakhstan. Unless the party makes "tremendous efforts," he warned, "our country will face great difficulties, and serious harm will be inflicted on the cause of building Communism." To get Red farms in the black, he demanded sweeping, immediate reforms that include doubling the output of farm machines, a tenfold boost in fertilizer production by 1980, and increased "Leninist incentives" (i.e., pay for peasants). Burying his seven-year-old decentralization program, Khrushchev put responsibility for agriculture on a vast central administration. With all the fervor of his old crusade for corn, he even plugged a brand-new party-line panacea: abandonment...
...Without Strings. The opponents of federal direction have good reason for their wariness. Control in some form -intentional or otherwise - has long ac companied federal aid, largely because Congress traditionally grants such aid only for specific purposes. The National Defense Education Act, for example, gave a huge financial boost to science and foreign language study, but as a result many schools simply skimped on history and English-a clear case of "federal control'' to critics. The only answer, says Executive Secretary William G. Carr of the National Education Association, is for Congress to give aid without strings...
Another U.S. pianist who got his first big boost in Russia-a prizewinner at the 1958 competition won by Van Cliburn, followed by two generously acclaimed tours in 1959 and 1961. In his second album (recorded in Moscow), Los Angeles-born Pianist Pollack dips into Bach, Beethoven, Liszt, Chopin, shows a ringing tone, a fleet touch, and a natural temper for the romantics. At 27, one of the most gifted-and least appreciated-talents around...
McDonald wanted a token wage hike plus a many-fringed package to soften layoffs and spread the work: bigger unemployment benefits, longer vacations, higher pensions, and 13-week sabbaticals for 20-year veterans. Management estimated that this would add up to 14? or 15? an hour, or a boost in labor costs of at least 3.5%-somewhat more than the 3.1% annual rise in U.S. industrial productivity. The steel companies countered with a 5? to 7? proposal, or about 1.5%¶somewhat less than the steel industry's annual productivity gain of about...
...remembering that our main one of the Committee's chairmen. "This function is not to raise money," claimed show is only a part of our program, and we're happy because of the boost it's giving the inmates, and the extra degree of self-confidence and pride it's giving them...