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...Academician V. A. Fock, of the University of Leningrad, one of the five Russian scholars visiting the University, will speak today on Some Questions in the Physical Interpretation of Quantum Machanics in Jefferson Physical Laboratory, Large Lecture Hall...
...Academician V. D. Feck, and Professors G. V. Stepanov, B. P. Tokin, and G. V. Efinov compose the remainder of the delegation. L. P. Stupin will possibly accompany them as an interpreter...
...universities in the United States today, the evaluation of performance is based almost exclusively on publication." Result: a neglect of what teachers are hired for-teaching-and "a great deal of foolish and unnecessary research . . . undertaken by men who bring to their investigations neither talent nor interest." The ambitious academician's sole aim is to accumulate published titles, as a young actor squirrels away television credits. Title-squirreling pays off: "Success is likely to come to the man who has learned to neglect his assigned duties" in favor of his "private professional interests...
...writes well; this is a rare quality in a book of detailed criticism, and I hope it sets an example that will be widely followed. Second, he is occasionally willing to summarize; this is an even rare and more useful quality, since it requires more courage than the average academician can muster...
ZILS & Rubles. Comrade academicians, the majority of whom are not even party members, eat at special restaurants, whiz about in big, two-tone ZILS, spend their summers at a Black Sea Riviera resort of their own, are allowed to subscribe to any foreign publications they please and to buy luxury goods denied others. By Russian standards, their salaries are princely; Nesmeyanov makes 30,000 tax-free rubles ($7,500) a month, besides thousands more for teaching, lecturing, appearing on TV or writing books. Even after an academician dies, his privileges continue. His widow may get a pension and a lump...