Word: leningrader
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grant from LIFE, expect the project to run to 40 volumes appearing over the next 15 years. For the past 5½ years, Editor Leonard W. Labaree, Farnam Professor of History at Yale, and his associate, Whitfield J. Bell Jr., have combed libraries and personal collections from Leningrad to Hawaii for any letter or document written to or by Franklin. They have amassed more than 27,000 photocopies of manuscripts and pieces of manuscripts...
Volunteers for Space. On hand this year are 15 American graduate students (and five wives), members of the second batch of Americans-13 more are at Leningrad University-to study in Russia under last year's cultural agreement. As guests of the Russian government, they get a handsome 1,500 ruble ($150) monthly allowance, twice the subsidy Russia gives its own graduate students. They work hard (law, language, economics), and live well in comfortable dormitory rooms, but a stiff weekly inspection by the dust-hunting "sanitary commission" is a reminder of where they are. They are graded on cleanliness...
Pattullo said yesterday that the Soviet note also indicated that Pusey's proposals were under consideration in the Leningrad faculty, and that some response could be expected in a short time...
...list of Leningrad faculty members wishing to work at Harvard, however, included nothing but names and general fields of study, Pattullo pointed out. Before the University can either approve or disapprove the nominations, it must know more about the specific research plans of each nominee. A letter requesting this further information will be sent to Leningrad in the next few weeks, Pattullo said...
...Harvard-Leningrad arrangement and similar programs involving Columbia and Moscow, Yale and Kiev, and Indiana and Tashkent, take place under the Lacey-Zaroubin cultural exchange agreement between the two countries, which was extended for two more years last Saturday...