Word: russian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What burns Dr. Fred Whipple, head of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory at Cambridge, is that the U.S. shows Russian scientists its equipment for computing satellite orbits, while the Russians do not reciprocate. Dr. Whipple has just returned from two scientific conferences in Russia, where he got the "runaround" when he asked to see Russian equipment. "We were not shown," he said last week, "any of the satellite computing equipment or centers, in spite of great efforts and many requests to see them. We saw none of the installations except the moon-watch program, which is copied from ours...
Whipple does not know why the Russians were so secretive. It might be that their computing centers are part of a military program, but he has no evidence of this. Russian scientists did not explain. Several of them, embarrassed, claimed that the Soviet Union has no satellite computing center...
When she eloped at 20 with thin-lipped Oleg Cassini, a dress designer and erstwhile Russian count, her beloved father threatened to sue her for $50,000. Charge: breach of contract with the family corporation formed to control her earnings. (Legally of age by marriage, she had signed a new contract with 20th Century-Fox.) Though eventually settled with a tearful reconciliation, the threatened suit was a severe shock, soon followed by the unexpected divorce of her parents after 25 years of marriage...
...RUSSIAN DUMPING has kicked the bottom out of free-world tin market. International Tin Council countered by buying tin at 91? a Ib. But council ran out of funds, and prices plunged from 91? to 80?, causing heavy losses to tin-producing Bolivia, Malaya, Africa...
Once the domain of oracles, astrologers, sooth-sayers, and writers of science fiction, the future is now much with many moderns. So much so that it takes half of Leningrad Popular Science Films Studio's production to get us out of the past. Billed as "Russian science fiction," the Brattle film is only partly that. After an account of the early struggles of the late Soviet scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, a breathless rundown of recent rocket developments culminates at the magic date of October 4, 1957. As past becomes future, satellites flourish, Soviet citizens view the "other" side of the moon...