Word: russias
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russia is still generations behind us with regard to consumption," says Alouishes A. Bergson, professor of Economics, but the U.S.S.R. is making substantial progress in bridging...
...Academy of Sciences, are comparatively "big men" in the Soviet social scale. Doty likened them yesterday to top-level American executives in the amount of reward they reap from society, which Van Vleck commented on the large number of cars and chauffeurs they have. As Doty pointed out, "In Russia science is an area where you receive according to your ability...
Doty, who visited Russia in May 1958 after an invitation from the Academy of Sciences, was impressed by the rapidly rising ability of Soviet scientists. Though he considered them still slightly behind the United States as a scientific nation, he warned that "it is the gradient rather than the level" of study that counts. "Their goals are defined by what the state needs," he pointed out, "and their exhaustive investigations could put them ahead before long...
...faithfully unbelieving schoolmarm, Paraskovia Petrovna, who hales Father Dmitry before District Agitprop Director Kuchin and argues with him en route on behalf of edifying atheism. Director Kuchin is fed up with staging anti-God lectures ("Nobody comes but atheists"); he has his own sophisticated recipe for the conversion of Russia. "We must make it so that the last of the old ones believes no more in the omnipotent, but in us," he says. "And for this we mnst show what we can do. First, a piece of meat in the soup, good clothes for winter, then-radio, electricity, books, movies...
...even in today's more consumer-conscious Russia, from all indications, God is doing somewhat better than just holding...