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Exactly-only the Russian version. The Novosti Press Agency, a nominally nongovernmental news service, decided that the best way to win American readers is to model a new magazine after the U.S. publication with the biggest circulation. So this month the agency brought out Sputnik, which consists of articles culled, condensed, and translated from the rest of the Russian press. Novosti has sent 12,000 copies of the first issue to the U.S., and hopes eventually to sell 50,000 at 500 a copy...
Slightly larger than the Digest in size, Sputnik contains many pages of color reproductions. The monthly is also chock full of advertisements for Soviet products ranging from caviar to hand-woven rugs to Moskvich automobiles, and it welcomes advertising from abroad. All in all, Sputnik is an uninhibited pitch to U.S. tourists to come and spend their money in Russia...
...wake of the Russian rocketry that launched Sputnik, many a critic of U.S. education assumed that the supremacy of Soviet schools was no longer in doubt. The Russians don't think so. Last month the party's Central Committee and the Soviet Council of Ministers ordered a major curriculum revision to be ready by 1970. Explaining why, Pravda this month published an unusually candid article by Russian Education Minister Mikhail Prokofiev, who charged that the vast Soviet school system is not only seriously deficient in science and math teaching, but is mired in a rigid "bookism" that makes...
...haven't the foggiest notion of what they look like when you begin," explains Electrical Engineer Charles Brindley, head of Radio Corp. of America's RSA research program. Despite the difficulties, an RCA scientist managed to use radar signature analysis as early as 1958 to describe Sputnik 2. When the Russians finally displayed a model of the satellite, it was confirmed that the sketch was remarkably accurate. It even included Sputnik's special radar reflectors-which led the U.S. to the conclusion that the Soviet tracking network included many low-power World War II radars. Refinement...
Wadsworth said that when the program began in the mid-1950's "during the days of Sputnik" there was considerable emphasis on accelerating students. Participation in an advanced standing program was "the thing to do," he said. "and thus, don't enter the program merely to be fashionable...