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...much as any other Russian is credited by the West with initiating Russia's great debate. A stocky Ukrainian with a quick and witty command of English, Liberman is typical of Russia's new breed that has used the freedom of the post-Stalin era to correspond with and receive Western economists, is as at home in Moscow's ministries as conducting a postgraduate seminar...
Meanwhile the south, where university classes were suspended for a week to calm rioting students, was hastily visited by a government envoy. Gist of his message: for the time being, the southerners can still correspond with the capital, if they wish, in the associate language...
...that 58% of all Frenchmen could say under what sign of the zodiac they had been born, 53% regularly read their daily horoscopes in the press, 43% thought of astrologers as scientists, 38% intended to have their horoscopes drawn up by an astrologer, and 37% believed that character traits correspond to zodiacal signs. More to France's credit was the fact that the most avid believers turned out to be farmers, people over 65 and workers earning less than $120 a month...
Bloch and Lynen did not collaborate formally, although they did correspond, and have met at nearly a dozen conferences. "There has been continuous interaction and supplementation," Block says, "but we have each run our own laboratory and conducted our own experiments." Recently, Lynen has begun to investigate the role of vitamins in the synthesis of fats while Bloch has stayed with the problem that has structured so much of his career. "We know that cholesterol is found in almost all living cells, but we don't know. what it's really...
...case was a symptom of what is happening to the once relatively liberal regime of Party Boss Wladyslaw Gomulka. At the start of World War II, Wankowicz fled Nazi-occupied Poland, accompanied Polish army units in the Italian campaign as a war correspond ent, and told their story in his best-selling book Battle of Monte Cassino. Soon after war's end he settled in the U.S. with his wife and daughter, became an American citizen. Homesick and impressed by the new intellectual freedom under Gomulka, he visited Poland in 1958, then four years later settled in Warsaw permanently...