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...case, agreed that the maria are probably quite alike, a view supported by the first Russian scientist to attend a NASA moon conference. Reporting on the 3 oz. of dust gathered last September from the Sea of Fertility by the automated Soviet moon probe, Luna 16, Geochemist Aleksandr Vinogradov indicated that the dark gray samples were very similar to the American lunar specimens from the Ocean of Storms and the Sea of Tranquility, Apollo 11 's landing site. He elicited even greater interest with his revelation that the Russians are planning still more sophisticated unmanned retrievers; some will...
...Daimler-Benz last week confirmed rumors that it is indeed negotiating with the Soviets to build what would be the world's largest truck plant on the banks of the Kama River, 560 miles east of Moscow. The West German automaker also announced that Soviet Automobile Minister Aleksandr Tarasov will go to Stuttgart later this month to discuss the project. As a spokesman for Daimler-Benz put it: "Good economic relations can be the foundation for improvement of the political situation...
...timidly that they have resulted in more confusion than flexibility. One major reason is that the Moscow industrial ministries-many of which were criticized by Pravda last week-have been reluctant to surrender their authority. The ministries, in fact, have often "violated the rights granted to enterprises," according to Aleksandr Bachurin, deputy chairman of the U.S.S.R. State Planning Committee. In the first blush of reform during 1966, the "Engine of the Revolution" diesel factory in Gorky reduced the number of its products from 18 to the four that its managers thought could be produced most efficiently. In 1968, on orders...
...translator; of cancer; in London. Equally at home in either culture, she founded her own publishing house, Harvill Press, after World War II, then dedicated the rest of her life to introducing the works (many of which she translated herself) of contemporary Russian authors. She published the writings of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Andrei Sinyavsky (Abram Tertz) and Evgeny Evtushenko, but was best known for collaborating with Max Hayward on the translation of Boris Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago...
...comes from Soviet Writer Yuli Daniel, who is serving the fourth year of a five-year sentence at hard labor for "slandering the Soviet state" in his short stories that were published abroad. Daniel is in a labor camp at Potma in the Volga basin, along with Fellow Writer Aleksandr Ginzburg, whose crime was compiling a record of the February 1966 trial of Daniel and Writer Andrei Sinyavsky (who is serving his seven-year sentence in another part of the same camp, also for "slandering the state...