Word: russian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Department has made no official reply to a proposal, made nearly a month ago by Russian Ambassador Georgi Zaroubin. However, F. T. Merrill, Director of East-West Contacts, stated that the government agrees with the plan "in principle...
Merrill said that no American answer will be announced until all 52 points of the recent Russian note can be dealt with at once. The exchange suggestion is one of the 52, and includes a plan for a similar setup between Columbia and Leningrad Universities...
...That doesn't mean," says Hughes, "that there aren't good Russian scientists. There are, but we have more. However, they're training more people, making their students spend longer hours at work, and putting more money into science than...
...history unfolds like a rolling backdrop. There are vignettes of barbed wire and mud from the trenches, glimpses of the headlines and early newsreels of the period, episodes of the air war with the Parisian night crisscrossed by searchlights and rocked by the thud of primitive bombs. Author Troyat, Russian-born but an adoptive Frenchman since his youth, writes out of a passionate love of France. His Pierre and Amelie in their simplicity and capacity for goodness seem closer to the gentle peasant folk of Tolstoy than the rapacious villagers of Balzac. Yet even Amelie loses innocence as the book...
Nobel prize-winner Edward M. Purcell and Russian-born chemist George B. Kistiakowsky were added to the committee which is now directly responsible to the President on "problems of national policy involving science and technology...