Word: russias
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...usual fashion of making martyrs out of men who are traitors in their own country, Soviet Russia last month issued a postage stamp honoring Greek Communist Leader Emmanuel Glezos, 37, recently convicted in Greece for spying against his own country (TIME, Aug. 3). To the U.S.S.R.'s Ambassador Mikhail Sergeev, Greece angrily protested the issuance of the stamp. But Moscow replied that it had no responsibility in the matter, since the stamp was issued by the "independent" postal authorities of the U.S.S.R. Not to be outdone, the Greek government last week issued two stamps bearing the image of another...
...world's most powerful atom smasher is in neither the U.S. nor in Russia; it is in Switzerland. In the rolling countryside three miles northwest of Geneva, the European Council for Nuclear Research (CERN) has built a great new proton synchrotron designed to produce 25 billion electron volts. Half buried in a hillside, it is a huge doughnut of magnet steel, 656 ft. in outside diameter. Last week British Physicist John B. Adams, chief of CERN's Proton Synchrotron Division, ordered slight corrections in the magnetic field, watched as the protons sped faster and faster around their circular...
...only support for Nixon among the Harvard respondents came from Stanley F. Teele, Dean of the Business School. He saw the essential issue as living with Russia "without sacrificing any of our essential values...
...Russians have also manifested interest in input-output analysis, and are now training people to perform the necessary operations. Leontief, who visited his native Russia briefly last spring, believes that although they are "having a hard time justifying the use of an analytical tool developed by a capitalist," the Russians will resort to it soon. Certain revisions have to be made in U.S.S.R. statistical methods in order to facilitate use of the analysis, Leontief added...
Another warning came from Professor W. W. Rostow of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Center for International Studies, who advocated "sharply increased public expenditures" for both defense and foreign aid. Russia's superior growth rate and her power-bent use of it, Rostow said, threaten the U.S. on half a dozen fronts, ranging from brush-fire wars to all-out attack, political penetration of underdeveloped areas and "diplomatic blackmail." Worst of all, said Rostow, Russia is creating among neutrals the "psychological image of an ardent competitor closing fast on a front runner who prefers to go down...