Word: russianism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Speaking through a translator, Aleksander Dymov, a Moscow University professor, said that he thought it would be beneficial for Russian students in nontechnical as well as technical fields to spend a year here. University students should also spend time studying in the Soviet Union, he added...
...were all members of the Russian delegation to the World Metallurgy Congress in Chicago. They have been touring the country and stopped off in Cambridge to visit Harvard and M.I.T...
Reports were conflicting about the fate of the dog riding in Sputnik 11. For six days after the launching, Russian scientists reported that she was well and that data about her physical condition were being radioed to earth. On the seventh day the Russians reported as usual on the motions of Sputnik II but did not mention its famed passenger. Two days later Italy's Communist newspaper L'Unita reported that the dog had been killed by a drug in her last portion of food...
Despite hints from individual Russians, there has been no official Russian promise to bring the dog back to earth, either dead or alive. Dr. John P. Hagen, director of U.S. Project Vanguard, thinks the Russians never intended to. Even if already dead, the dog cannot merely be pushed into space like the dog in Jules Verne's From the Earth to the Moon (see cut). Rocket "braking" is necessary. Dr. Hagen believes that the weight of Sputnik 11 is not enough to include the rocket fuel that would be needed to check the speed of the satellite and bring...
Died. James ("Big Jim") Campbell, 62, tough but mild-mannered general secretary of Britain's 370,000-man National Union of Railwaymen; after a car collision (with a Russian truck) in which N.U.R. President Tom Hollywood, 54, was also fatally injured; in Stalingrad's Defense Square (top British union officials were on a three-week tour of Russia...