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University Daily Kansan
Thursday. Feb. 25. 1965
Khrushchev Felled By Too Little Corn
Not enough "corn" in Russia brought the downfall of Nikita Khruschev, a KU political scientist and expert on Soviet agriculture believes.
It's the agricultural corn he means, not a deficiency in the former Soviet ruler's occasional homespun antics.
WRITTING IN "Your Government," monthly bulletin of the KU Governmental Research Center, Roy D. Laird said the growth of Russian food production, especially of grains, had stagnated since Khrushchev took power.
Because of declining yields per unit of land of some major crops and increasing population, "Soviet output of food per capita in recent years has fallen back to the 1956-57 level," Dr. Laird said.
The best year for food production was 1958, but Khrushchev then began a corn growing campaign and one to plow-up enormous tracts of formerly idle lands in arid southern regions of Russia.
The 1963 crop failure because o
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College Hall, which once stood where Gertrude Sellards Pearson dormitorv now stands.
Gen. John Fraser, Civil War veteran and the second chancellor of the University, supervised the construction of the building. It was first called University Hall. Gen. Fraser, when Fraser Hall was completed, said it was sufficient to meet the needs of the school for the next fifty years. Fifty years later, in 19-22, KU had a total of five buildings.
Four U.S. presidents have spoken in Fraser Theater throughout the years — Franklin D. Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Rutherford B. Hayes, and Ullyses S. Grant. General Sherman and Henry Ward Beecher also spoke in the old theater.
AT ONE TIME the theater was commonly called the "campus necking parlor." As soon as it had earned this reputation, school officials closed Fraser Theater during evenings.
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drought sharply curtailed corn production. Khrushchev then made one final desperate campaign in agriculture, Prof. Laird said. It was a crash program to expand greatly the fertilizer output. Unfortunately his party colleagues concluded that, as usual, his crash program would offer too little too late.
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Throughout his reign Khrushchev continued to believe that putting the virgin soil under the plow would provide a solution to the need for more food for Russia's growing population, Prof. Laird said.
IT DIDN'T. Now much of the old land as well as the new must be put into fallow if it is to be saved from complete devastation according to Prof. Laird. Prof Laird said Khruschev had argued that the expanded output of fertilizer, herbicides and expanded irrigation still could allow the attainment of the 20-Year Plan goals for 1980. The plan would put the Soviets nutritional levels on a par with the West.
The Soviets cannot expect to achieve their 1980 goals unless they completely change over to a highly intensive cultivation system, Prof. Laird wrote.
Khrushchev's major promise when he was campaigning to succeed Stalin in to solve the agriculture problem. Not enough progress was made, Prof. Laird said, and Khrushchev's ouster meant that he had failed to live up to the promises.
Fully aware of Krushchev's failures in agriculture, his successors will probably make major changes in the system if domestic and international consequences are to be avoided, he said.
Oklahoma State's defending national wrestling champions host Minnesota of the Big Ten Friday. OSU has strung 69 duals without a loss, including 11 straight this season.
Oklahoma State is ranked first in the nation followed by the Iowa State Cyclones in the number two spot.
OSU Might String 70
Greeks Clash in Intramural Play
Beta Theta Pi defeated Phi Gamma Delta, 49-29, in the first round of the Fraternity "A" division of the intramural basketball championship held Tuesday night. Two seniors, Fred Littoy of Hutchinson and Bill Geiger of Leavenworth, teamed up to lead the scoring honors for the Betas with 10 tallies apiece. Wally Hinshaw, Wichita sophomore, was the high point man for the Phi Gams with nine points.
The second game in the competition ended with the Phi Delta Thetas downing the Phi Kappa Thetas, 47-44. John Cahill, Kansas City freshman, was the high scorer of the game with 14 points for the Phi Kappa Thetas. Larry Kincaid, Shawnee Mission sophomore, led the victorious squad with 10 points.
The second round in the elimination will begin tonight at 6 p.m. when the Betas take on Delta Upsilon, which had a bye for the first round. The second game will start at 7 p.m. with the Phi Delts playing Sigma Nu, which also was bye on the first round.
The winners of these games will play Friday at 4 p.m. to decide which team will play the Independent "A" champion for the hill title.
Big 8 to Be Tough In the Indoor Track
Start drawing straws, or resorting to whatever method preferred to pick a team winner for the 37th annual Big Eight Conference indoor track championships this Friday and Saturday at Kansas City's Municipal Auditorium.
Tickets for this colorful carnival, that promises to furnish as tight a team race for the indoor title as individual challenges for the medals are still on sale at the Auditorium's box office. Seats for Saturday's finals are $1, $2, $3. All tickets for Friday's preliminaries and semifinals are $1
The individual field includes two double winners from last year, plus four other champions and 28 placers. Times recorded thus far show that four performances either equal or better all-time Big Eight indoor bests and the performances in 10 of the 14 events have been better than the winning times or distances of last year.
MISSOURI is the defending team champion and returns a well-balanced team, including three individual winners. But Kansas, the runner-up last year, also has strength in every event and a pair of returning titlists.
Then there is Oklahoma State with its great middle distance coterie competing in this meet, which is built for those with middle distance power—the 600, 880, 1000, and mile events—and Nebraska with its great sprint and hurdle strength, hoping to get enough points out of the 60 dash and the 60 high and low hurdles to grab the big piece of hardware.
Colorado, Oklahoma, Iowa State and Kansas State all have some outstanding individuals, but probably not enough overall squad strength to slip past the other four and into
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first — unless Kansas, Oklahoma State, Nebraska, and Missouri chop each other up and one of the other four slips past to the throne.
According to Coach Bill Easton, "Every event on the Big Eight indoor track schedule is dominated by brilliant performers. It will take a great team effort from the winner."
Swedes Topple U.S.
The U.S. team is preparing for the world championships in Finland next month.
STOCKHOLM —(UPI)— The United States ice hockey team suffered the third straight setback on its European tour Wednesday night as it lost to Sweden 4-0.
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K-State is nationally known for its technical training, and we all know a technician will use the simplest methods available to him to accomplish his goal. The so-called perpetrators claimed that they used mountain climbing techniques to reach the scoreboard. Bushwah! Why would any student risk life and limb on a slender lifeline, when the K-State campus is amply stocked with experienced Betas?
The much-discussed K-State banners on the Allen Field House scoreboard last Saturday night proved to be the best stunt yet in the intra-school rivalry. Many theories have been advanced as to how it was accomplished, and telephone calls to news media by the self-proclaimed culprits have explained the methods used. But we're not satisfied.
In this case, the shortest distance between basketball court and field house scoreboard would be an airborne Beta.
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