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Lacking the ability to mount a serious airlift to the embattled Congo, the Soviet Union could not. if the U.S. and the U.N. took a vigorous stand, intervene militarily without risking either a big defeat or the kind of all-out war that Nikita Khrushchev seems not to want...
Politely, in the week of the Congo, the President of the U.S. congratulated the Premier of the Soviet Union on launching a "space vehicle" to Venus (see SCIENCE). Politely, Nikita Khrushchev thanked John Kennedy, and hoped that the two nations could some day explore space together. Nonetheless, the Russians touched off their newest giant skyrocket with a propaganda torch, highlighting the sad fact that the U.S. has no rocket engines to match the feat-and is not likely to have them for four or five years. Even the orbiting last week of two relatively pint-sized Discoverer satellites...
...prison or disgrace all Soviet biologists who defended the orthodox axiom that basic traits are transmitted by genes that cannot be changed by training the parent organism. Lysenko's dictatorship died with Stalin. But now Lysenko is back in bloom, not as a declaimer of dogmas, since Nikita Khrushchev does not care much about that, but as a preacher of the kind of husbandry that Khrushchev hopes will whip up the country's badly lagging farm output...
...Rock chickens into Buff Orpington hens, trying to turn wheat into rye. He complains righteously against Science Academy President Aleksandr Nesmeyanov (TIME cover, June 2, 1958) for criticizing his experiments. Says he pointedly: "I am infinitely happy that my modest work is highly prized by the party government and Nikita Khrushchev in person...
During their temporary alliance, Kanza said, the Congolese President and Premier sent a joint telegram to Nikita S. Khrushchev stating that the Congo might soon have to request Soviet aid in driving out Belgian troops. After September 5 of last year, when Lumumba and his friends (excepting Kanza himself) were thrown out of office, Kasavubu published the telegram but left his name...