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...institutions have been glimpsed by only a few privileged visitors from the West. Now as part of the partial thaw in U.S.-Soviet relations, several American science writers, including TIME'S Fred Golden, have been taken on a conducted tour of leading Soviet research centers, from Moscow to Leningrad to Novosibirsk in western Siberia, and allowed to speak with scores of top scientists. Golden's report...
...yours." Still, they are clearly very eager to learn from the American experience. During our tour, for instance, an agreement was reached that will enable Soviet scientists to study air pollution in St. Louis and water pollution in Lake Tahoe; American scientists will have similar access to Leningrad and to Lake Baikal, the world's deepest fresh-water lake...
Under the highly specific agreement, Soviet scientists will help American experts probe the air-pollution problems of St. Louis and then do the same in Leningrad. The water pollution of Lake Tahoe will be compared with that of Siberia's Lake Baikal. The capability of both nations to predict earth quakes will be tested along California's San Andreas Fault and in Tadzhikistan's Pamir Mountains. The murky waters of the Delaware and Potomac rivers will be analyzed, along with those of two Soviet rivers yet to be designated. More broadly, the general urban environmental problems...
...Russian champions, Spassky represents the calm, collected and efficient competitor that Reuben Fine includes in the "non-hero" class, able to do well in fields other than chess. Fine also notes that the easygoing Spassky is a depressive personality, perhaps because in childhood he endured the siege of Leningrad and spent some years in an orphanage. Spassky's father left the family when Boris was very young, and the future champion was raised by his mother. Fischer, too, was deserted early in life by his father and raised by his mother. Her name, incidentally, was Regina, a fact that...
...stereotype of a 'modern' work; and the audience response was stereotypically reserved. But all of this is contrary not only to the spirit of the score, but also to Berg's expressed attitude toward the performance of his works. Consider his enthusiastic praise of one production of Wozzeck (Leningrad, 1927): "Wozzeck was sung with belcanto. Yes, a modern opera needs just as nice singing as Troubadour! And the phrasing must be just as flexible." Such remarks must also have some significance for the performance of Berg's chamber works...