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...reason for the quiet was the shift of election emphasis from the heavily Communist cities (where minds seem already made up) to the countryside. Out in the hill villages, living in bleak cottages and scratching a bare living from the thin soil of the peninsula, the poverty-stricken paesano was the man of the hour. His vote might tip the scales...
...Yezhov-type terror no longer stalks Russia. Most Soviet citizens go to bed at night without fearing that Beria's MVD will pound on their doors. This security, however, is bought at a terrible price. The Russian people live in a sort of "house arrest." They dare not shift from city to city in search of work. They do not talk or even think too long about how they are ruled. If they do, they are likely to join the 12,000,000 in Beria's labor camps...
With the breakdown of the father-dominated family and the emancipation of women, Dr. Halliday finds, there has been a significant sexual shift in psychosomatic diseases. In the 19th Century more women than men got ulcers and exophthalmic goiter; since 1900 it has been the other way around, increasingly so. During the late 19th Century, twice as many men as women got diabetes; by the 1930s there were two or three women with diabetes to every male sufferer. Dr. Halliday, who is married and the father of two children, comments: "The personality type of male was apparently becoming in some...
...sounded as cocky as ever. "We earned in excess of $22 million in the last nine months of 1947 on a one-shift operation," said Edgar Kaiser, "[and] we should do as well this year." But Wall Streeters, who had shown their hopes and fears about K-F in the ups & downs of the stock, were worried again. Wall Street thought that Cyrus Eaton of Otis & Co., an old K-F friend turned enemy (TIME, Feb. 23), was dumping 45,000 shares of K-F stock he held. It helped drive down the price to 8 7/8 at week...
...conscious U. S. Although American oil reserves are immense, comprising thirty percent of the known supplies, the U. S. refines over sixty percent of the world's petroleum and cannot maintain this uneven balance indefinitely. With fewer new fields coming in each year, the oil market will shift away from the United States in two decades unless the on companies are permitted to exploit undeveloped fields in Iran, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia...