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Last week Moscow's Izvestia lifted the recent blackout on Dr. Kapitza, said, that he had helped equip a great new laboratory on Mt. Alagoz, a remote eminence in remote Soviet Armenia. Kapitza's announced activity: research in stratospheric cosmic rays, a roundabout approach to the harnessing of atomic energy. U.S. scientists, pondering the sparse accounts from Moscow, were willing to swear that there was nothing roundabout in Dr. Kapitza's other atomic doings...
...European, because that type of ringworm is prevalent among Europe's poorer classes but not in the U.S. A man with a wartlike scar of Aleppo or Jericho boil is probably an Armenian, because the disease rarely occurs outside of Asia Minor and is most common in Armenia. An old man scarred by bites of the body louse (vagabond's disease) is probably a tramp...
Athwart the Oil Arteries. Russia's demand for Kars had far-reaching implications. Physically the region is a remote forested plateau, once part of Armenia, now predominantly populated by Kurdish shepherds and bandits. It has fairly valuable salt mines, and rigorous winters. But strategically, Kars is a bastion commanding the entrance from Turkey into Russia and from Russia into Turkey...
...some of the visiting scientists, it was a first opportunity for firsthand examination of science as a monolithic state enterprise. Except for independent academies in Georgia, Armenia, Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan, all Soviet science is under the direction of the Soviet Academy. Within this organization are 76 research institutes, 11 independent laboratories, six observatories, 42 meteorological and astronomical stations, 73 libraries and 16 museums. The Soil Research Institute in Moscow alone is an eight-story building covering more than a city block...
...Britain and Russia were working together. Into Iran from Iraq in the west marched a British column. More British troops landed at Bandar Shahpur, southern terminus of the Trans-Iranian Railway. To the north Red Army troops began their long trek through the mountains into Iran from Russian Armenia. In India's northwest province of Baluchis tan other British forces stood ready to attack from the east. Directing Britain's whole effort was General Sir Archibald Wavell...