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...forbidding Virgin Lands of Central Asia, where Khrushchev set out in 1954 to create a vast new granary, erosion now threatens to turn millions of acres into a dust bowl; most of the new croplands last year failed even to return their seed grain. His hasty campaign to plow under fallow grasslands has impaired huge areas of once-fertile soil since 1958. Khrushchev's evangelical efforts in 1961 to promote mass sowing of corn did more harm than good, as he himself admitted at the meeting...
...winter, serving small boys as a toboggan slope. When a traveler once congratulated a rural stationmaster on the bumper wheat crop pressing in on the tracks, the embarrassed official explained: "First, there was this shipment of fertilizer that never got picked up. Then there was that shipment of seed grain that didn't get delivered. They just got together...
Salaun is the only amateur to beat Vic Niederhoffer at any time this season. Neiderhoffer spilled Hecksher in a Massachusetts "A" League match; he has beaten former amateur champ Harry Conion, the tournament's fourth seed, twice. But he lost to Salaun in the Middlesex Bowl Tournament over Christmas vacation, and again in the Cowles Invitational in New York just after exams...
Then came the sudden-death overtime, and with it the death of Harvard's hopes of a high seed in the ECAC...
...Milton Berle, David Sarnoff, Laurance Rockefeller, the Duke of Windsor. Some customers store up to 10,000 cigars at a time so as not to run low on Dunhill's most expensive cigars, the eight-inch $1 brands that are made from 45% Havana leaf and 55% Cuban seed tobacco grown in Connecticut. Though supplies from Cuba have been cut off, Dunhill's Askanase has found other sources, from Jamaica to the Philippines; besides, he still has enough Havana leaf in Dunhill's huge Tampa warehouses to make a lot of good cigars for a long, long...