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...Abram Bergson, professor of Economics, pointed out that Premier Nikita Khrushchev's extraordinary efforts to increase Russia's extraordinary efforts to increase Russia's agricultural production and ease the shortage of consumer goods have been only partly successful, due mainly to Russia's generally weak farming resources. In industry, on the other hand, it was pointed out that the Soviet Union "has been growing twice as fast as the U.S. in recent years," and Bergson suggested that the day inevitably would come when Russia surpassed U.S. industrial output unless this country greatly steps up its effort...
...discussion of "The Soviet Union Today" will be held in Paine Hall, in the Music Building, with speeches by Merle Fainsod, professor of Government, Abram Bergson, professor of Economics, Alex Inkeles, professor of Sociology, and Zbigniew K. Brzezinski, assistant professor of Government...
Lysenko, a second-rate biologist, was enthroned because his theory that environment could produce any desired result fitted in neatly with the Communist theology. Physicist Lev Landau was tossed into jail; Physicist Abram Joffe barely escaped being shot; and Geneticist N. A. Vavilov died in a slave labor camp, while his younger brother, the president of the academy, dutifully signed the documents destroying his brother's life work...
Most of the people close to him agree with Critic Abram Chasins that, because his basic instincts are "those of a pristine musician," Van will survive the perils of his success. But U.S. music is unlikely ever to be the same again. "What he has given to it," says Pianist Eugene Istomin, "is glamour. He has reminded everybody that we are no longer a cowboy country musically...
Appointed professors of Law, effective July 1, were Clark Byse, Abram J. Chayes '43, and David Westfall. Chayes and Westfall have been assistant professors and have both taught at the University since...