Word: russia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dreary Russia, Moscow University (enrollment: 27,000) is one of the few visible convincers that a primitive nation is out to conquer space. Among its 420 full professors, it boasts 33 members of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. Famed for aerodynamics and mathematics, it relegates the humanities to the old university (founded in 1755) in downtown Moscow. Its real heart is the new (1953) Palace of Science, a vast complex of 37 buildings that sprawl atop the suburban Lenin Hills on the site of what-ten years ago-was a peasant village...
Volunteers for Space. On hand this year are 15 American graduate students (and five wives), members of the second batch of Americans-13 more are at Leningrad University-to study in Russia under last year's cultural agreement. As guests of the Russian government, they get a handsome 1,500 ruble ($150) monthly allowance, twice the subsidy Russia gives its own graduate students. They work hard (law, language, economics), and live well in comfortable dormitory rooms, but a stiff weekly inspection by the dust-hunting "sanitary commission" is a reminder of where they are. They are graded on cleanliness...
...Black." From being Russia's second dullest paper (Pravda-circ. 6,000,000-official Communist Party organ, is incontestably the dullest), Izvestia became one of the sprightliest. Out went some of Tuesday's boring repetitions of what Pravda, the only-paper in Russia with a Monday edition, had said the day before. On the front page, once the unassailable domain of party catechisms, news stories surprisingly appeared, and the ponderous headlines (A CLEAR DEMONSTRATION OF THE UNITY OF THE SOVIET PEOPLE AND OF RALLYING AROUND THE COMMUNIST PARTY) became downright breezy (I VISITED THE VINNITSA SPY CENTER...
With the boss's boy leading the way, others among Russia's leading journalists got the idea, began breaking old molds. In an unprecedented gesture, Moscow's Literaturnaya Gazeta last week agreed to run a 1,100-word letter from U.S. Author Charles Neider, defending The Autobiography of Mark Twain, which he edited, against a hostile review in the Russian literary journal...
Pointing out that there is no crisis in Berlin except as precipitated by Russia, Kissinger expressed dismay at the resultant calls for "summit" conferences. "An interim agreement" implies that Russia has a hand in the government of West Berlin," he cautioned...