Word: russian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...group of undergraduates are adapting original Russian folk songs to accompany the book which was written by J. Jeremy Johnston '61. Charles M. Castleman '61 and John Austen '61 are organizing an orchestra which will be directed by Andrew Schaence '62. John B. Prizer '61 and Marcel Ugels '61 are producing Drumbeats, with Mark J. Mirsky acting as director...
With remarkably little ceremony or commotion, 15 U.S. graduate students last week checked into Moscow State University, inspected the comfortable single rooms they had been assigned, and settled down to begin work on their Ph.D. theses. Part of a group of 21 Russian-speaking young men-the other six are enrolled at the Leningrad State University-they are the first students sent for a year's study in Russia under this year's cultural agreement, and the first U.S. scholars to enroll at Russian universities since before World War II. Twenty Russian students are expected to arrive...
Chosen by the U.S.'s Inter-University Committee on Travel Grants, the U.S. students are guests of the Russian government, receive a handsome 1,500-ruble ($375) monthly allowance-twice the subsidy Russia gives its own graduate students. Rent costs them one ruble a day, and food is sold at student rates. Most of the men, ranging in age from 22 to 37, are married, but at week's end only 23-year-old Harvard Political Science Student Jeremy Azrael had managed to take his wife. Shy, smiling Gabrielle Azrael says she has no pretensions to a Ph.D...
...United Nations General Assembly reverberated last week with protests from the world's tin-producing nations against Russian dumping of tin on the world market. Delegates from tin-rich Bolivia, Malaya, Indonesia and Thailand complained bitterly that a price slump caused by Russian dumping threatened to undermine their economies. The trouble was not confined to tin producers; for many a nation economically dependent on a single metal or commodity, fluctuations in price and demand have become an economic nightmare...
...prices too high, make quotas too rigid. Furthermore, metals controls are easily frustrated by the discovery of new or cheaper sources of supply-or by the market dealings of a maverick. The International Tin Council ran out of cash trying to support prices in the face of Russian dumping because it set its floor price at an unrealistic level of 91¼? per lb. With the council out of support funds, the price dropped to 80? per lb., is now firming...