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...dreary similarity of the "official" architecture, Russian cities tend to look alike. In Siberia it is even more so, since a raw frontier flavor still persists. Irkutsk is typical of Siberian cities, sprawling across both banks of the Angara River and surrounded by industrial suburbs whose factories turn out plywood as well as machine tools; bricks, knitwear and cement as well as tractors. In the city, the old is carelessly mixed with the new. Many streets are potholed and puddled, lined with haphazard wooden hovels that have leaned crazily for years. Others are wide, tree-shaded asphalt boulevards, flanked with...
...army is also the major driving force in the economy, through the Defense Services Institute set up eleven years ago and now headed by Aung Gyi; the institute has energetically boosted the development of vital small industry (such as a fishing combine, a plywood company, a shipping line), will play a major role in Burma's first four-year plan...
...make gold. U.S. economic aid to neutralist Cambodia totals nearly $230 million and keeps the national economy on an even keel. Another $87 million in U.S. military assistance has gone into equipping Cambodia's 28,000-man army. From Red China, Sihanouk has gotten three factories (textile, plywood, paper) and the promise of three more. The Soviet Union weighed in last year with a 500-bed hospital. Both the U.S. and Russia are building and staffing new technological institutes...
...venereal disease than it did from German bullets. Even in the famed Guards regiments, few of the hastily called-up reservists had seen, much less fired, a shot in anger until their first encounter with the Germans. The ist Armored Division arrived at the Western Front with mockup plywood tanks; another unit had six mobile movie houses, but only a handful of obsolete antitank weapons...
...example is the senior-year aerodynamics course taught by Associate Professor Erik Mollö-Christensen. First, Mollö-Christensen holds a lottery, and the number each student draws corresponds to something in the lab-a piece of wire, a piece of plastic tubing or of plywood. Working in pairs, the students are required to determine the modulus of elasticity of the material they drew. Two students, working with a piece of brass, determined its elasticity by measuring the speed at which sound passed along it. Explains Mollö-Christensen: "They can do it any way they want to-so long...