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Lockley marked his rabbits with numbers and kept track of all their doings. Soon he found that they followed rigid social customs that had the effect of holding the population down. At the head of a rabbit hierarchy is a muscular, middle-aged "queen doe" who occupies the best burrow in the center of the warren. She permits some of them to shelter in the warren, but when does of lower rank have their young, she forces them to dig small nest holes in distant parts of the enclosure, where they are exposed to predators and inclement weather...
...Youth Service Program, criticized the supervisory nature of the agency, which he said would "lead to anarchy." Hornblow asserted that the plan, which would supervise and subsidize private projects but create none of its own, would be less effective than a centralized program with clearly defined goals and rigid criteria for selection of candidates...
Khrushchev's table-thumping performance at the United Nations is evidence of this return to post-war Stalinism and the rigid division of East and West into two absolutely opposed camps, he claimed. Moscow's inability to do anything but tone down the "obvious crudities" of Chinese policy in the Manifesto is proof that Mao Tse-Tung can intervene successfully in Russia's internal affairs...
...which last week dipped below $18 billion for the first time since 1940. Anderson's major demand was that Adenauer shoulder the costs of keeping U.S. troops in West Germany-some $600 million per year. The Germans refused, making some promising counteroffers (see FOREIGN NEWS), but under the rigid terms set by Anderson himself the mission had to be counted a failure-for the moment, at least. Though Anderson was accompanied by Under Secretary of State Douglas Dillon, State Department sources spread the word that both Foggy Bottom and the U.S. embassy in Bonn were "unhappy" about Anderson...
...Peru. A rigid feudal system controls most of the nation's land and wealth. Peru's mass-based APRA is firmly anti-Castro, but it has no chance of instituting social reforms until elections in 1962; in the meantime, a new, nationalistic party is rising to chip away APRA's strength...