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...editor of Moscow's Komsomolskaya Pravda (Truth of Communist Youth, or "Pravda Jr.") called two reporters into his office. Said he: "Set all your current work aside and take an assignment into the 21st century." So the reporters, Sergei Gushchev and Mikhail Vasiliev, interviewed 29 Soviet scientists and wrote a Communist book, obviously meant as a major Soviet showcase: Russian Science in the 21st Century. Now published in the U.S. by McGraw-Hill, the book offers a glimpse at the little-known world of Soviet science. And an unexciting world it seems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Dull or Concealed Dreams | 11/21/1960 | See Source »

...River. Nesmeyanov is a world-famed organic chemist, and certainly capable of dreaming impressive scientific dreams. But the book that Komsomolskaya Pravda's reporters assembled is singularly meager in scientific imagination. One chapter predicts for the 21st century the mechanization of mines-which is already an accomplished fact in many non-Communist countries. Another tells about hydroelectric stations very run-of-the-river examples, that will be built in 50 years in Siberia. A chapter on surgery describes techniques and operations that have been standard in the outside world for many years. Almost the only unfamiliar glimpse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Dull or Concealed Dreams | 11/21/1960 | See Source »

...Moscow the crowds were out, and the Communist daily Pravda sang its hosannas for the returning hero, even if no one in the U.N. had. Western leaders, crowed Pravda, wanted to make the U.N. "the world's quietest waters," but they "wriggled as the head of the Soviet delegation, brushing aside all the subtleties of protocol, put his foot on their tail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: The Thunderer Departs | 10/24/1960 | See Source »

...language-translating computer. Built by IBM, it translates Russian into English, has a vocabulary of 55,000 words. Its first assignment: translating each day's Pravda for the Air Force. It works at a rate of 1,800 words per minute, turns out rough but readable English...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW PRODUCTS: Prometheus Unbound | 9/19/1960 | See Source »

FIVE years ago, Russians and Eastern Europeans were varity in black Africa, and, though occasional African nationalists turned up in Moscow to study, not one Pravda Page in so mentioned the continent's name. Last week, everywhere Western diplomats turned. Communist weeds were sprouting in the freshly plowed soil of African nationhood Guinea's Sekou Toure turned to the East for aid after France responded to his demand for independence by withdrawing everything down to the Government House furniture NOW he has Czechs operating his airports, Poles running his public works and East Germans building...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: AFRICA: Red Weeds Grow in New Soil | 9/12/1960 | See Source »

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