Word: ussr
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...news media can do its part by not printing and reporting those idiotic cumulative medal standings. The first Olympic news item I heard upon my return to the United States was that the country was hopelessly behind the USSR in their battle for medal supremacy. After a week of watching superlative performances and the emergence of various national heroes, this pronouncement seemed irrelevant...
...almost infinite number of lines of research. But there is little communication between them; each fraternity keeps to itself. Research projects are conceived and funded separately, and teams work as closed units. A group will have more contact with people doing similar work in Arizona, or the USSR, than it will with a group doing a different project down the hall. A piecemeal progress is being made here, with technological inevitability...
James R. Schlesinger '50, former Secretary of Defense, will discuss United States-USSR relations at the annual Gustav Pollak Lecture on Research in Government on April 13, in the Science Center...
...contained the expanding Russian influence in that region then the USSR would remain second to the US in a basically bipolar balance of power. If Washington could ensure its paramountcy in the region, control the access to its raw materials and be the watchman of its waterways, then it would have maintained a powerful leverage over western Europe and Japan. The "stability" of the international order depends on the containment of the liberation movements and the preservation of pro-US regimes in this strategic area more than in any other. Finally, a successful Persian Gulf intervention appears as the master...
...meter speed skating performance, "This is America's first gold medal." The only consolation is that ABC isn't as bad now as they were at the 1972 Summer Olympics, where they showed a chart every hour or so of the number of US medals versus the number of USSR medals...