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America's pervasive insensitivity to bigotry, then, is the heart of the matter. A man who literally holds his finger on the trigger of the American military machine indulges in a Nazi concept and then sits quietly, saying nothing more for over a month, until embarrassed into an apology by an alerted press...
...China was Yenan, the old Red Army headquarters that's now a sort of historical shrine. We saw all the houses that Chairman Mao once lived in, and a labor hero who spoke to him three times, and a museum with the horse he used to ride, stuffed, like Trigger outside the Roy Rogers Restaurant. So we didn't see much of the countryside there, except a May 7 Cadre School--a farm where non-manual workers are supposed to spend six months from time to time working and studying, the idea being that farming will help them identify with...
...windswept cornfield near the aptly named Minnesota farming community of Pillager last week, a farmer placed the barrel of a 22-cal. pistol against the head of a three-month-old calf and pulled the trigger, felling the animal instantly. Another farmer then slit the calf's jugular vein. Its carcass was dragged to a freshly dug trench and kicked in. Another calf was shot and disposed of in the same manner, then another and another, until by midafternoon almost 300 head had been destroyed and piled in the pit. The day's last kill was a sackful...
...into sales of new cars and might damage parts of the recreation industry, as well as other businesses. It could add to the price of food because farmers use much gasoline to run their machinery. Because gasoline prices are figured into the Consumer Price Index, a gas tax would trigger wage increases for the 4.5 million workers covered by contracts that have escalator clauses pegged to the CPI. Meanwhile, the higher prices for gasoline would fall most heavily on inflation's worst-hurt victims: low-income Americans...
Even the Chinese success is not complete. According to U.N. estimates, Chinese get only 91% of their caloric requirements; a major crop failure could trigger widespread hunger. At best, the Chinese are buying time during which population growth can be checked. Chinese families are encouraged to have no more than two children if they live in the city and three if they live in the countryside...