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...family to Paris. At twelve, the glazier's son became a messenger boy for a process server's office and then a clerk for a bookstore-jobs that opened up to him every corner of Paris. He sketched everything he saw, finally started studying art with an academician whose idea of instruction was to have his pupils copy plaster casts hour after hour. "This is not life," said Daumier, and he struck...
...whatever the Soviet space experts learned, they added little to Gaga's own story. They published only the bare statistics of the flight: it lasted 108 minutes, of which 89 minutes were actually spent in orbit; the rest was climbing to orbit and descent to the earth. Academician Evgeny Fedorov, one of the big brains of the Soviet space program, spoke briefly about the descent. It was accomplished with retrorockets, which slowed the Vostok and brought it down into a "braking zone" of gradually thickening air. There the ship was heated by friction and suffered tremendous strain...
...minor mysteries about the Vostok's flight. According to the Russian official account, he checked in over South America only 15 minutes after the Vostok was launched. Yet South America is more than half an orbit away from the probable launching. At a space conference in Florence, Italy, Academician Anatoly Blagonravov, 66, a former Czarist artillery expert who often acts as a Russian space spokesman, was asked how Gagarin did his sightseeing from the Vostok. He replied that Gagarin looked out "by radio." This suggestion that the Vostok had no portholes only brought smiles from U.S. space experts...
...recent issue of Soviet Weekly, Academician Mikhail Lavrentyev, vice president of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, berated Soviet schools and universities for not producing more and better trained scientists. Much of the trouble, he said, comes from the "divorce" between research institutes and universities. The best scientists avoid becoming university professors because they fear being loaded with so much teaching that they can do little or no research. They prefer the institutes, which do research only. Attempts by education authorities to make the institutes into centers of scientific education have come to little. The institute directors will not cooperate because...
...students to see a film "that does not in any way reflect the views of the students or faculty insofar as it purports to be historic fact rather than political interpretation." Since when do professors or departments have to clear their views with their students? Since when has an academician been prevented from voicing an opinion, whether on riots or whatnot...