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Five Harvard professors returned last week from Russia, where they made preliminary plans for an exchange program with the University of Leningrad. "We hope the program will begin next fall," said Merle Fainsod, professor of Government and spokesman of the group...
...Russian delegation, headed by Alexandrof, rector of Leningrad, will visit Harvard in May to negotiate the details. Other members of his group have not been announced...
...when "the cult of the individual" was out of favor, he had actually been outvoted in the inner leadership, 7 to 4 as Western specialists had suspected at the time (TIME, Sept. 16, 1957). To the routine condemnation of the "loathsome" Malenkov and his allies, Kaganovich, Molotov and Bulganin, Leningrad's party secretary demanded that former Presidium Members Mikhail Pervukhin and Maxim Saburov admit that they, too, had sided with "the anti-party group" against Khrushchev...
...addition, three professors have gone to the University of Leningrad, as part of an exchange program between the two Universities. Wassily W. Leontief, Henry Lee Professor of Economics, Merle Fain-sod, professor of Government, and Richard E. Pipes, associate professor of History, will remain in Russia for the next two weeks and interim arrangements have been made for their courses...
...will fly through space, hazards or no hazards. The Russians are known to be planning to put a man up in a satellite. Astronomer Alexander A. Mikhailov, director of Pulkovo Observatory near Leningrad, told a TIME correspondent last week that they are also planning a manned voyage to the moon. The biggest problem, he said, is safe return, and they do not intend to risk a man until they are sure of getting him back alive...