Word: keldysh
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DIED. Mstislav Keldysh, 67, prominent Russian mathematician who helped shape his country's space program; in Moscow. His own research centered on rocketry and spacecraft, but as chief of the Soviet Academy of Sciences from 1961-75, Keldysh oversaw a national network of scientific projects and organizations. His working knowledge of English helped him maintain contacts with many Western scientists, and he professed a desire for Soviet-American cooperation in space research...
...barrage of anti-Sakharov articles has been appearing in Soviet journals, the first since early September. And there was recently a Soviet counter to a warning issued by the U.S. Academy of Sciences that any punishment of Sakharov would endanger Soviet-American scientific cooperation. Sakharov, charged Mstyslav Keldysh, president of the Soviet Academy, is "politically blind...
Four Harvard professors joined students at a rally the following day to continue the protest against Keldysh and the alleged anti-Jewish decree. George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology, criticized the head tax decree as a "ransom" educated persons must pay so they can emigrate...
...Harvard professors did not stand alone in their criticism of Soviet policies. Members of the Harvard community organized two pickets this week to protest a visit by Dr. Mstislav V. Keldysh president of the Soviet Academy of Sciences...
Twenty five students met Keldysh and an encourage of Soviet scientists as they arrived at President Bok's house for dinner on Monday night...