Word: dewitte
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...N.S.F. report was written by Nicholas DeWitt, 38, a bearlike (250 lbs.) native of the Ukraine who owes his unSlavic name to Dutch-German ancestors...
...Army of Technicians. DeWitt is not a doomsayer blind to the weaknesses in Soviet education. But he warns bluntly: "There must be no misunderstanding or underestimation of the Soviet scientific and technical manpower buildup. It has become the principal source of Communist strength." The Russian goal is clear: to create an army of scientists and engineers who will build a physical power superior to the West's. To do so, Russia now spends as much on education as the U.S., though it is only half as rich, and it gets more of what it wants for its money...
...result of its highly selective system of education the Soviet Union is producing two to three times as many scientific and technical professional graduates a year as the United States, claims Nicholas DeWitt '52, an associate of the University's Russian Research Center...
...recently published book, Education and Professional Employment in the U.S.S.R., the result of a three year research project sponsored by the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences, DeWitt asserts that while the United States is producing 90,000 engineering, science, and applied science professionals annually, the Soviet Union is averaging 190,000, with the figure expected to rise...
...DeWitt relates his findings to the varying emphasis on science in the two countries. While the annual number of Americans receiving the Ph.D. is almost the same as the number of Russians receiving the equivalent Candidate Degree, the Soviet Union awards 20 percent more of its degrees in the scientific fields than the United States does...