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...fairly strong criticism of Khrushchev's educational reform plan by Nesmeyanov and other academicians, who do not like its provision for putting all students to work. At a recent Moscow meeting, Nesmeyanov reportedly toed the line: the time has come to glorify Soviet scientific achievements as the unique outgrowth of Marxist philosophy. Lysenko is not the type to accept political without professional vindication. In the field of Soviet genetics. Khrushchev's announcement that academic and research projects will henceforth get funds in proportion to their showing in the cowshed rather than in the laboratory amounts to a victory...
...political and social realms, man was reduced to a "working power," and rediscovered as the self in "anxiety, guilt, and despair," Tillich said. One outgrowth of this rediscovery was expressionist art, which "showed the world in its demonic character...
What's Wrong? The confessed criminals were members of the Panamoli tribe, most of the victims were Basua. The Belgian authorities feel certain that the society of crocodile men was founded as an outgrowth of tribal rivalry. But though the crocodile men admitted their murders and the ritual cannibalism, they still refused last week to give any reason for the crimes...
...Outgrowth of a conference on foreign-language teaching in high schools last year in Washington, the report starts with a sobering statistic from Howard E. Sollenberger, dean of the School of Languages of the Foreign Service Institute. Three out of four new Foreign Service officers, he reported, do not have enough reading or speaking skill in any foreign language to handle overseas work adequately. Said Sollenberger to the teachers: "The 75% figure surprised even us. We knew the deficiency was serious, but not that bad. Unfortunately, by the time we get these men and women it is almost too late...
...State Department calendars one date-December 16-was looming up with the speed of light. On that day Dwight Eisenhower is scheduled to be in Paris for the unprecedented meeting of NATO chiefs of government, an outgrowth of the ringing call for NATO "interdependence" in defense and scientific research, issued by the President and Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan at their meeting last month in Washington. Yet every passing day seemed to bring more complications than solutions; last week State Department technicians were putting in 14-hour days, and Secretary John Foster Dulles' week was a blur...