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...Wall Street banker's daughter astonished the Russians this summer by asking for an iron so she could press her own dresses. And Neva Rockefeller, 20, who was visiting Nikita Khrushchev with her father David, is independent in other ways. A Radcliffe junior and aspiring playwright, she made known her engagement last week to Gerald Michael Medearis, 24, a St. Louis public-school graduate, who interrupted his Harvard education for four years to "find himself" by working in a Hollywood sound studio...
Back home, on the chilly banks of the Neva in Leningrad, plenty of bodies were uncovered as swarms of pale, fleshy Russians looked for a place in the thin spring sun, the very image of a people who want the better, freer-and more stylish-life Khrushchev promises. Sounding downright capitalistic, Izvestia launched a new plan to bring about this longed-for prosperity; it suggested putting a traditional Russian drink known as kvas on the world mar ket to compete with Coca-Cola...
...between Paul Bunyan and Luther Burbank, and his sterling example inspires glorious acts of self-sacrifice from the lowliest peasant. Though foreigners laugh off the myth as nonsense, millions of Russians are asked to swallow it. Hence the shocked incredulity of Russians who picked up the Leningrad literary monthly, Neva. There, in a short story by Fedor Abramov, was a startling indictment of the apathy, discontent and frustrating failure of collective farm life that still exists after more than four decades of Soviet rule...
Thomas H. Weller, Richard Pearson Strong Professor of Tropical Public Health, and Franklin A. Neva, associate professor of Tropical Public Health, were awarded the grant by the United Cerebral Palsy Research and Educational Foundation...
Although discovery of a vaccine may still be several years away, research on the virus is "urgently needed," Neva said yesterday. "We're trying to discover the basic properties of the virus so that we or some other group can ultimately develop a vaccine...