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...From Leningrad to Baku, the Russians rolled out their flossiest Red carpets last week and strove to outdo the welcome extended to Sukarno by the U.S. Jet fighters escorted Sukarno's plane. Guards of honor and equally well-drilled cheering multitudes greeted him at airports with bunting and banners. At a meeting of Leningrad engineering workers, who offered to help industrialize Indonesia, Sukarno, himself an engineer (Bandung Technical Institute), let his emotion overflow: "My heart brims with love and gratitude. I beg you not to address me as . . . Your Excellency. I beg you to call me Bung Karno [Brother...
...question buzzed insistently through the mind of the young Jewish chemist as he hung on the adventures of Russian Explorer Ivan Papanin: Where did he find drinking water in the arctic? After the lecture, Alexander Zarchin shouldered his way to the front of the classroom at the Leningrad Technical Institute and got a deceptively simple answer. "We melted icebergs," explained Papanin...
Russian papers published in 1939 and 1940, say the Rand team, prove that Soviet nuclear physics was as advanced at the time as in any other country. Its apparatus was plentiful and excellent. The first cyclotron on the European continent was in operation at the Leningrad Radium Institute before 1940. Two other cyclotrons were in the works, one of which (if the war had not intervened) would have been three times more powerful than the 60-inch cyclotron at Berkeley, then the world's biggest...
...Americans also held out words of praise. They thought Stalingrad "beautiful" and Leningrad "magnificent." Said Smith: "They've done a great restoration job. They've broadened streets, widened promenades, built parks and planted plenty of trees...
...Rembrandt, whose parents saw to it that he got a good Latin-school education, plus a taste of university life, preferred the company of his sturdy Dutch countrymen. He once chose to paint his bride Saskia in the trappings of classic mythology, but the result (opposite), now owned by Leningrad's Hermitage, is basically a plain young Dutch girl, garlanded with field flowers and dressed in the rich, show-off satins and brocades that so delighted Rembrandt at Amsterdam's public auctions...