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Pilfered Ears. Ukrainian Party Secretary Nikolai Podgorny, member of the ruling Presidium, was next. When he asserted that his region's harvest was "almost on the previous year's level," Khrushchev snorted. And when Podgorny said bad weather cut corn yields, Khrushchev gave him a brutal verbal beating. "I'm certain, Comrade Podgorny, that the figures on corn yield you just cited are only for half the crop. The other half of the corn was stolen, torn up by the roots." "Correct, Nikita Sergeevich," cringed Podgorny. Roared Khrushchev: "So what has the weather to do with...
Short of Plan. Tikhon Sokolov, Party Secretary of the Virgin Lands Territory of North Kazakhstan, admitted that poor farming methods as well as a rainy spring had knocked the region's harvest down to 73% of plan. "We are criticizing you for this," snapped Khrushchev. "We are taking it to heart," Sokolov replied. Sokolov said his region had boosted meat production, but 3,000,000 sheep had died for lack of feed. Unaccountably, Khrushchev said nothing. But when Sokolov said his region planned to raise hogs for a market weight of 110 kilograms (242 lbs.), the boss broke...
...China's regimented economy faltered, India reported its best economic year in history. Industrial production rose 15% over the 1959 industrial index of 151.9. The harvest is the biggest in Indian history...
Died. Samuel Dashiell Hammett, 66, seclusive insomniac whose tours-de-corpse (Red Harvest, The Maltese Falcon) revolutionized detective fiction by taking murder out of the hands of English butlers and giving it back to the people who usually commit it; of chronic lung disease; in New York City. A onetime Pinkerton agent who hung on to his job only because of the literary quality of his reports, Hammett contracted TB while an ambulance driver during World War I and, while convalescing, perfected a bone-clean prose style perfectly suited to a brutal world of crime in which private cops were...
...wineries are supervised by four Christian Brothers, headed by roly-poly Brother John Hoffman, 49; and 25 or 30 younger brothers help with the picking and crushing at harvest time. But most of the work is done by some 200 regular employees and about 100 extra harvest hands, who are all union workers...