Word: russias
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...independence from Spain, and cooler heads tried to confine it to a university-sponsored sovereignty rally in a plaza eight blocks from the Canal Zone. But even before the first moderate speaker could finish, 200 well-organized rioters took over. They drowned out the speaker with screams of "Viva Russia!" "Viva Fidel Castro!" and "To the Zone!", charged out of the square. Outflanking Panamanian National Guardsmen, they rushed across Fourth of July Avenue (the zone border) and rammed a flagstaff into soft Canal Zone earth. "All right, now," said a U.S. squad leader. "Move them...
...impressive groups of Russian scientists were making a pilgrimage last week to U.S. scientific centers and getting as friendly a reception as U.S. scientists received this summer in Russia...
...Soviet Administration for Peaceful Utilization of Atomic Energy, they visited laboratories from California to Long Island, uranium mines, nuclear-power reactors and the nuclear merchant ship Savannah, now under construction at Camden, N.J. The prime matter on Emelyanov's mind seemed to be peaceful atomic cooperation between Russia and the U.S. The two nations are now engaged, he said, in a "football game" of senseless competition, but they would get ahead faster if they built only one example of each expensive piece of apparatus (e.g., cyclotrons) and used it jointly. Last week Emelyanov signed an agreement with AEC Chairman...
...judges from this film, proletarian life in Soviet Russia seems to be the same as working class life in the U.S. (At least in their movie version). There is none of the sordidness that is found in Italian and French realist movies. But simple creatures, who are happy or sad according to the external conditions of their lives aren't very extraordinary. This Russian attempt at a Paddy Chayevsky "slice of life" story is not very exciting...
...succeeding 11 months the political machinery to direct the system has been agreed upon: a control commission, administrator, and regular conferences of signatory nations. Provision for re-evaluation of the effectiveness of the inspection system was obtained. The West and Russia compromised on the duration of the treaty (it is to be indefinite as the Russians insisted) and withdrawal right (any time the treaty was not fulfilled, the West's point). Furthermore the West obtained Soviet agreement on the installation and operation of control stations in each other's territory, a measure hitherto rejected by the security-minded Russians...