/ GET DOWN TO PRODUCTION " WITH THE IDEA MEN OUT OF 
THE WAY, KHRUSHCHEV TURNED TO THE PAINFUL PROBLEM OF RUSSIA'S FACTORIES 
AND FARMS . CASTING ABOUT FOR A WAY TO BOOST INDUSTRIAL 
OUTPUT, THE PREMIER CALLED A SPECIAL JOINT SESSION OF THE COMMUNIST 
PARTY PRESIDIUM AND THE GOVERNMENT'S COUNCIL OF MINISTERS, WHICH ANNOUNCED CREATION 
OF A NEW, ALL-POWERFUL SUPREME ECONOMIC COUNCIL, DISCARDING AT LAST THE 
DISCREDITED SCHEME FOR REGIONAL INDUSTRIAL AUTONOMY THAT WAS INSTALLED IN 1957 
. AT THE SAME MEETING, KHRUSHCHEV SCRAPPED THE LAST TWO YEARS 
OF HIS MUCH-TOUTED SEVEN-YEAR PLAN (1964-65) AND ORDERED THE NEW ECONOMIC 
CZARS TO GET BUSY AND DRAFT A NEW SET OF QUOTAS 
. THE BOUNCY PREMIER ALSO TURNED UP AT A MOSCOW MEETING 
OF AGRICULTURAL EXPERTS AND EXPLAINED WHY HE FIRED THE SOVIET AGRICULTURE 
MINISTER FORNIGHT AGO (TIME, MARCH 15) . HE SPENT TOO MUCH 
TIME WRITING DIRECTIVES FROM MOSCOW AND TOO LITTLE TIME ON THE 
ROAD, INSPECTING THE FARMS HE WAS ORDERING ABOUT . " THE 
COWS CAN'T READ DIRECTIVES, " SCOLDED NIKITA . " ALL THEY 
WANT IS A JUST EXCHANGE : " YOU GIVE ME FODDER, 
I GIVE YOU MILK . " ' AND OF MILK AND 
MEAT, HE ADMITTED, THERE IS " STILL VERY, VERY LITTLE . 
WE HAVE ALREADY CRITICIZED THE WRITERS FOR BAD WORKS . YOU 
OBVIOUSLY WON'T DO AS WRITERS . BETTER GET DOWN TO PRODUCTION 
. " 