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...Soviet Union, romance took the form of girl-loves-tractor. In Communist China, it is girl-loves-bucket. Gushed a Red propagandist: "The girl carries away the soil as the boy dredges the pond. Sweat drips from their bodies. The girl does not complain of fatigue, although she has carried a thousand loads; nor does the boy feel the chill in the mud. It is not convenient to talk to each other, but they understand each other at heart. Both are heroic fellows. They work until the stars disappear and the sun rises...
...been marched into the factories, now the workers were marched onto the farms. In Kiangsi province, 480,000 workers were ordered out of their industrial plants and into the fields. In Shansi, 400,000 more were (in Peking's phrase) "retrenched" from dam construction and industry to the soil. Now, three years too late, the Communist Party announced that it was putting "industry at the service of agriculture." A Harbin plant switched from making freight cars to repairing tractors; in Kansu...
...also mobilizing for trouble. Orders from Washington approved by President Kennedy sent the Little Rock, the aircraft carriers Valley Forge and Franklin D. Roosevelt and coveys of support vessels toward the Dominican coast. Aboard the Valley Forge were 1,800 marines, with helicopters to land them on Dominican soil. At the airbase near the inland Dominican city of Santiago de los Caballeros, Commanding General Rodriguez ordered the arrest of every Trujillo agent in the city whom the uncles were apt to count on for their bloodbath. His younger brother, Air Force Deputy Chief of Staff Pedro Santiago Rodriguez Echaverria, persuaded...
Elaborate Precautions. Dr. Dombrowski got interested in ancient life when he noted that the warm, allegedly curative brine that comes to the surface near his laboratory at Bad Nauheim was full of living bacteria. They could not originate in the soil, he decided, because they are present in the water when it is still 600 ft. below the surface. Besides, they were a type whose modern representatives live in the sea. And along with the bacteria, the brine carried fossil pollen from trees that grew in the Permian...
...team from Rutgers University is working on a study to find out if soil is being formed in Antarctica, or whether the continent is simply too cold for soil making...