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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What then about Khrushchev's talk of outproducing the U.S.? "Nonsense," says one U.S. expert whose specialty is Russian economics. By a totalitarian concentration, the Soviet Union might top U.S. output in a few items, but Russia's economy is "like a younger brother who always seems to be catching up to his older brother, but never really does because the older brother also keeps growing...
...Another expert, University of Virginia Economist G. Warren Nutter, compared Russian economic growth to U.S. experience at about the same phase of development-between 1880 and 1920-and concludes that in these 40 years the U.S. surpassed Soviet growth in its first four decades. Soviet Russia has scored its most impressive gains in a few key fields such as steel, oil and heavy construction, whereas U.S. productive energies have ranged over a far wider spectrum, and established a much wider base. Assuming a continuous growth in the U.S. economy, Soviet output will still be badly lagging by either...
...Bridge Expert Easley Blackwood, father of the Blackwood four-notrump convention, Composer Blackwood studied at Yale under Paul Hindemith, moved on to Paris, where he became a student of Nadia Boulanger, for 35 years the musical nanny of top U.S. composers (TIME, Sept. 30, 1957). Now an instructor in the music department at the University of Chicago, Blackwood insists that his composition has no direct connection "with the times in which we live." Does he regard himself as beat? "Anybody looking at my picture," says Blackwood, "could tell that...
Billington, an expert on Russian studies, said that he has a notebook full of the jokes of the Russian people. "Their humor usually plays with official party slogans," he pointed...
Public sentiment is no less influential because it must be indirect, Bundy asserted. Complex decisions will require increasing reliance on expert advice, accentuating the delegation of responsibility on foreign issues. Bundy noted that this trend increases the importance of public retention of decisions on broad policy options...