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...Harder Than Space. Twice this summer. Nasser sent delegations to Moscow demanding more and better service. In July the Russians agreed to fire the Soviet project director. Dr. Ivan Kosmin. who had built the great Kuibyshev Dam on the Volga. His replacement. Dr. Alexander Alexandrov. took one quick look at Aswan and rushed back to Moscow to ask for more machines and technicians. The most ominous result of these stops and starts, plan changes and equipment failures, was that rock excavation fell far behind schedule, with only 7,300.000 out of a total of 26 million tons of granite drilled...
Another intermediate step towards the final goal of a Harvard-Leningrad exchange program was taken successfully yesterday. Professor A. D. Alexandrov, Rector of the University of Leningrad, told the CRIMSON, "I am certain as a man can be that there will soon be professors and graduate students starting the new program, possibly next year...
...Alexandrov said that he was in "complete agreement with the Harvard professors and Deans." An informal source indicated that perhaps, with a bit more work at the administrative level, a formal program could be set up to put the long-awaited exchange principle of the Lacey-Zarubin agreement into effect for the first time...
While at the University, the five Russian scholars talked with Harvard professors in their fields of study and attempted to find out tentatively who would be interested in visting Leningrad at some future date. Alexandrov indicated, however, that future exchanges would probably be open to professors in all fields of learning, not just the scientific ones emphasized by the current delegation...
Yesterday, most of the visiting professors spoke to seminars in their various fields of study, with Professor V. A. Fock, one of the foremost physicists alive, drawing a capacity audience of about 300 in the Jefferson Lecture Hall. Most of the professors leave today, Alexandrov for Berkeley, Calif., Fock for Princeton and the others for New York City...