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...youthful cinder of two or three billion years, the earth has a lot of ailments. And man, the principal sufferer, knows precious little about the earthquakes, volcanoes, tidal waves and other ills that plague the planet. Last week, in a new book, Causes of Catastrophe (Whittlesey; $3), Lewis Don Leet, professor of seismology at Harvard, summed up some old and new diagnoses...
...that is thought of. It is the crops next year . . . the clothes that will be made very soon. If ever a people took energy from hope...." In the fields around shell-pocked Shevchenko, they found cheerful bands of women picking cucumbers. They were barefoot, "for shoes are still too precious to use in the fields." Everywhere, they found dogged, friendly people, willing to share their bread and cabbage, anxious to hear about America and full of misconceptions about it, instilled by the Russian press. Again & again they were asked: "Will the U.S. attack us?" Again & again they had to explain...
...Chinese Vassar girl, but married the village girl to whom his family had engaged him in childhood. Ambassador Hu's wife, too shy and unconfident to come to the U.S., stayed behind in Peking. When the Japanese came, she rescued at great peril what she knew was most precious to her husband: 70 crates of rare books and manuscripts...
...were not more precious than the gold in the ground at Fort Knox, one could wish heartily that Wheat Farmer Campbell's wheat [TIME, Nov. 17] would rot where it lies on his farms. No more damning indictment of uncontrolled capitalism can be imagined than the vicious economics of Farmer Campbell. Another way to get farmers to sell, besides that advocated by Campbell, would be to stop subsidizing them and thus force them to sell their goods for what a free and open market will bring...
...pointing out that soybean protein is as good as the protein of meat, containing all the amino acids which the human body needs. Last year U.S. farmers raised 196,725,000 bushels of soybeans and fed nearly all of them to livestock, which returned only a fraction of the precious protein as meat or eggs or milk...