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...LAMP UNTO MY FEET (CBS, 10-10:30 a.m.). Report on the flourishing Jewish community of Hungary...
...LAMP UNTO MY FEET (CBS, 10-10:30 a.m.). Recorded readings by the late poet T. S. Eliot...
Since factory output goals are either laid down in weight or quota by the planners a knitwear plant ordered to produce 80,000 caps and sweaters naturally produced only caps: they were smaller and thus cheaper and quicker to make. A factory commanded to make lamp shades made them all orange, since sticking to one color kept the assembly line uncomplicated. Tire production one year was fixed without checking the plan for motor-vehicle output. Taxi drivers were put on a bonus system based on mileage, and soon the Moscow suburbs were full of empty taxis barreling down the boulevards...
...economists and engineers had long known that much of the Soviet economy was a joke, and started saying so. Typical was the protest about the construction of the Novo-Lipetsk steel mill. The plans took up 91 volumes comprising 70,000 pages, specified precisely the location of each nail, lamp or washstand-everything, in fact, except whether the project was economically sound. An engineer estimated perhaps half in jest that at the rate the paper-wafflers were multiplying, by 1980 the planning agencies might well employ every man and woman in the Soviet Union. One mathematician made the astonishing calculation...
...LAMP UNTO MY FEET (CBS, 10-10:30 a.m.). A study of Dag Hammarskjold, based on his recently published diary Markings...