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Soviet astronomy ranks high. Professor Donald Menzel, head of Harvard College Observatory, found Russian astronomers equal to their U.S. colleagues in imagination and ability. Pulkovo Observatory at Leningrad, which has a scientific staff of 400, is particularly fine. The Russians have some excellent men in astrophysics-such as L. S. Shklovsky, who proved that the glow of the Crab Nebula is caused by high-speed electrons passing through the nebula's magnetic field-but top performers are not numerous...
...Vleck, a member of the five-man Harvard team sent to the universities of Moscow and Leningrad in February 1959, praised Soviet work in physics, stating that it had equaled the American level for the past ten years...
...further exchange agreements will take place soon. According to Fainsod, a very important third step in the exchange process would be an agreement enabling "more senior people to spend longer periods of research" in the Soviet Union. He hopes that some such arrangement will emerge from the Harvard-Leningrad exchange agreement...
...Festival, however, was not a series of rallies--only the four were staged in ten days. The total impression of the Festival was diffuse, ranging over the entire breadth of Vienna, and, for the average impressionable delegate, an orgy of cultural events dominated by the Russians (e.g. the Leningrad Ballet) and the Communist Chinese (e.g. the Peking Circus). Dozens of such events were running each day in all available auditoriums in Vienna, and in the evenings Eastern and African folk performers appeared in neighborhood parks across Vienna...
...Lunik III soared on, Soviet scientists waxed confident, began to loosen up about its objectives. Leningrad Physicist Lev Ponayeton said that data from the unseen side of the moon will help determine its shape and distribution of mass, which will be of tremendous help to manned space flights. Semi-official science reporters went farther, predicted that Lunik III would transmit actual photographs of the other side of the moon. Official scientists did not mention photographs, but it was significant that they launched their rocket at a time when most of the far side of the moon was in sunlight. Presumably...