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...more than 13,500 baptisms. In the last six months, Britain's Mormons have broken ground for 24 new churches, and they plan to start on 26 more by July. Says Woodbury, who expects his church to baptize 30,000 converts next year: "We are planting a fertile harvest for the Lord...
Nasty Recruiters. On TV, Ulbricht tried to explain that East Germany's food problem was the result of "a smaller harvest than in 1960 due to particularly unfavorable weather conditions." But this excuse hardly convinced many East Germans who knew that neighboring Poland, with similar weather, produced record crops in 1961. The real difference: Poland had soft-pedaled collectivization, permitted the farmers to till their own land; Ulbricht's regime, on the other hand, was still trying to force an unwilling peasantry to work in a harsh collective farm system...
...inconceivable that they can be carried out by the Congolese without outside help, which presumably will have to come from or through the U.N. Contemplating the travail of the Congo, which has a large Roman Catholic population, Pope John XXIII said last week: "Just as it was about to harvest, from political independence, the long-awaited fruits of comfort and peaceful effort, behold this blessed land is bathed in blood . . . We turn beseechingly to those who can and must intervene with disinterested advice, with light of right, to help in re-establishing peace in this country...
Finding Scapegoats. Instead of the whopping 375 million tons of food grains originally claimed, Peking admitted a harvest of only 250 million-and most Western experts scaled that figure down to 210 million, only 25 million more than 1957, the year before the Great Leap Forward. The cotton total was cut by a third. Of the boasted 11 million tons of steel, only 8,000,000 were found "usable in industry." By this summer, the figures had fallen so low that Peking refused to announce them, but even observers friendly to the Reds estimate grain production at a mere...
Changing Faces. In Kazakhstan, key to Khrushchev's grandiose scheme to plant grain in the virgin lands southeast of the Urals, the visitor from Moscow angrily changed faces, interrupted a regional party leader who reported that the grain harvest had been "reduced" this year by shouting: "That would be expressing yourself mildly. You did not reduce it, you wrecked...