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...early 1960s, however, trouble began to flare in the northeast. "Since June 1962," notes a Soviet Foreign Ministry official, Mikhail S. Kapitsa, "provocations on the borders of the U.S.S.R. have become systematic." For their part, the Chinese claim that in the past two years alone, Soviet border guards intruded onto Chen Pao 16 times. According to Peking, nearby Chiliching and Kapotzu islands have also suffered such intrusions "on many occasions." The Chinese also charge that Soviet aircraft frequently violate their airspace. In the past three years, Moscow has built up its strength along its Asian borders to an estimated...
...Peter Kapitsa was once a big name in British science. The son of a czarist general, he arrived in Britain in 1921, broke but brilliant, and won a fellowship at Cambridge University. Soon he was astonishing his fellows with experiments in low temperatures and magnetic fields. Honors were showered on him, and Cambridge built him a special $75,000 laboratory for his work. Then in 1934 Kapitsa returned to Russia for a scientific convention, and Stalin refused to let him leave. Over the years, a few rumors about Kapitsa leaked out, putting him variously as head of Russia...
...Kapitsa behaved with the caution of a man who knew that he was being watched. He refused to clear up any of the mysteries of his past years, brushing off as "romantic" a reporter's question about his reaction to Stalin's stay order. He spoke guardedly about the Soviet space program, argued that the Soviets were still "a little ahead" of the U.S. At only one point did he unbend, offering his own formula for peace. It was, he said, "an international exchange of scientists from military institutions." "Then," added Kapitsa puckishly, "there would be no more...
...Kapitsa seemed only to want to kindle old memories. He returned to Cambridge, visited his old workshop in the Cavendish Laboratory, and dined with the dons at his old college, Trinity. Realizing that he had no academic gown, the required dress for evening meals in college, he asked a college servant to fetch one for him. The man brought back the very robe that Kapitsa had left behind 32 years...
...will live as long as there are lovers of beauty." Next, Abstract Sculptor Ernst Neizvesnty, whose work also had been attacked by Nikita, took the floor. "You may not like my work, Comrade Khrushchev," the sculptor said, "but it has the warm admiration of such eminent Soviet scientists as Kapitsa and Landau." Retorted Khrushchev scornfully: "That's not why we admire Kapitsa and Landau...