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Amid the nation's scramble for brainpower, some men believe in imposing a uniformly "tough" curriculum on all students. Vice Admiral Hyman G. Rickover wants to set up European-style schools limited to the brightest scholars. To Conant, both ideas are anathema on realistic as well as philosophical grounds. A single standard would breed frustration, delinquency and lower standards. The elite school implies splitting up universal education on the European pattern...
None of this careful planning bothered Warsaw's freedom-minded people. While Nixon in his brief arrival speech was drawing smiles from Polish officials with a tactful mention of Vice Admiral Hyman Rickover's Polish birthplace, Makowa Village, and recalling that two Polish glass blowers had been among the first settlers at Jamestown, Va., the excluded crowds waved and shouted beyond the airport gates. And when Nixon's Russian ZIS limousine started out of Babice toward the city, all semblance of formality disappeared...
...Nonsense." This jovial atmosphere cooled when Nixon & Co. were taken to visit the 16,000-ton Lenin, Russia's vaunted atomic icebreaker, and Vice Admiral Hyman Rickover asked to visit the ship's reactor room-only to be told that it was "closed" for the day. "Nonsense," snapped Atomic Expert Rickover, "the reactor room is never closed." From Nixon himself Rickover got the firm order: "You stay here an extra day if necessary, and say that it is our understanding that you see just as much as Kozlov...
Reluctantly the Russians gave way, allowed Rickover to crawl all over the Lenin (which he pronounced "a creditable job"). As the terrible-tempered admiral finally prepared to leave, a Russian official asked him if he was satisfied. "No," said Hyman Rickover. "I am pleased, but I am never satisfied...
...Vice President Richard Milhous Nixon, fresh in dark grey summer-weight suit and light grey tie, emerged blinking into the sunlight from the forward hatch, followed in a few moments by Wife Pat, by the President's brother, Milton Eisenhower, by the Navy's Atomic Vice Admiral Hyman Rickover and the rest of an official party...