Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...INRA has concentrated on state-bossed cooperative farms, which so far number 485, equipped with 1,771 new INRA tractors. (Castro recently complained that INRA's major obstacle was "U.S. industrial strife," i.e., the steel strike, which has slowed delivery of farm machinery.) INRA has handed out small plot deeds to just 91 peasant farmers...
...LIST OF ADRIAN MESSENGER, by Philip MacDonald (224 pp.; Crime Club; $3.50), opens with a worried author asking a Scotland Yard acquaintance to check the whereabouts of ten men-and refusing, because of British diffidence and the exigencies of plot, to say why he needs the information. A few days later, the writer dies in a mid-ocean plane crash. To armchair hawkshaws, it will be as unmistakable as a corpse on a carpet that this is not coincidence. And when it turns out that most of the men on Adrian Messenger's list have died by violent accidents...