Word: withers
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...official Russian policy is that in due time, as the food supplies in state stores become more plentiful and cheaper, private gardening and the keeping of cows and chickens, etc.. will wither away. There is as yet no evidence this is happening. Despite an official campaign to compel private farmers to sell all livestock to the state, a third of the beef cattle, half of the milkers, and four-fifths of the goats are still peasant-owned...
...Withering Fruit. The decline of the sense of responsibility within "our general economic life" has led to a "lack of truly responsible leadership, both on the part of management and of labor." Internationally, a similar decline is shown by the feeling that "adherence to the United Nations absolves us from further responsibility in the international order and that decisions made by the United Nations, regardless of their objective value, are always to be regarded as morally right." There is no need to wait for a mass movement to cure the "mental lethargy" of collectivism, said the bishops. "The heroes...
...dominant role. Cuba, for its part, seems intent on adopting patterns from Red China. In the eleven months since Fidel Castro appeared on TIME'S cover (which asked: "Democracy or Dictatorship?"), a supergov-ernment called INRA has grown up-as such prerevolutionary institutions as Congress and the courts wither away -and has set up 485 commune-like farm cooperatives. For how Canada grew rich while Cuba took the path to economic chaos, see THE HEMISPHERE...