Word: sovietizers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Predictable result: last week, after months of debate by Soviet educators and further eruptions from Khrushchev, the Supreme Soviet voted unanimously in favor of a sweeping reconstruction of the Red schoolhouse. Highlights of the change, which will get under way next September and be completed in three to five years...
Something less than wholehearted approval of the new plan came from Alexander Nesmeyanov ( TIME Cover, June 2 ), president of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. In a Literary Gazette article, he observed mildly that interrupting a student's education tended to make him forget what he had learned. Neither was Nesmeyanov enthusiastic about night schools; it would be better, he wrote, if teen-agers studied in the morning, when their heads are clear...
WASHINGTON, Jan. 4--The Soviet Union's Anastas I. Mikoyan arrived today for what he called an American "holiday," but he quickly arrange to meet with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles at noon Monday...
MOSCOW, Jan. 4--The Soviet Union's cosmic rocket blazed an ever lengthening trail into space today and was reported gradually entering into orbit around the sun, with its radio still sending scientific information back to earth...
GENEVA, Jan. 4--Representatives of the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union enter a critical stage Monday in their negotiations for a controlled end to nuclear weapons tests...