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Priests & Prisoners. It is among writers and other editorial workers that Raymond B. Cattell and Ivan H. Sheier of the University of Illinois have found the highest anxiety ratings, based on complex personality tests. That they come just ahead of the Navy's underwater demolition teams (frogmen) is probably due more to their higher verbal abilities than to on-the-job hazards. Air pilots in training have, naturally, more anxiety than business executives; priests have less?but this may be a reflection of their having found a certainty of faith and of a rigid routine that conceals if it does...
...poems in Mosaic, two are especially appealing, one an excellent translation of a Yiddish poem, "The Prayer of Ivan the Drunk," the other a delightful short poem by George Blecher, a junior in the College...
Leverett will swim John P. Arnold '63 breaststroke. Freestyler Ivan H. '63 swims the 50 in about 26 se while Raimund G. Vanderwell, Jr. John M. Kasdan '61 have been d in 27. Completing the Leverett are Ralph E. Miller '61 in the but- and Lawrence J. Lewis '62, back-r. The swimmers and their events undergo considerable juggling at de Thursday...
...diplomatic hand at the Kremlin from the early days of the five-year plans, has a feeling for the steppe-like sweep of Russian history and offers a carefully balanced account of the Soviet regime. He places Stalin in the succession of grandiose tyrants who either demoniacally (Ivan the Terrible) or pragmatically (Catherine the Great) have ruled Russia with the knout. One memorable vignette: Secret Police Chief Beria reviling the comatose Stalin as a monster on his deathbed and then dropping to his knees in slobbering sycophancy as the unconscious dictator raises an arm in eerily imperious command. Most striking...
Ottawa trade officials think the prospects are slim for much auto business (yawned the Montreal Star: "Coals to Newcastle"), but they do think that Prokhorov's fellow traveling salesmen, Sergei Vishnyakov (foodstuffs and beverages) and Ivan Markelov (musical instruments, watches, toys), might have better luck. Under Canada's 2-to-1 trade pact with Russia signed last April, for every $1 worth of business the Russians drum up on their four-week tour. Canada stands to gain $2 worth of export sales...