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In contrast with Stalin's lack of concern with living standards, Khrushchev has attempted to solve these problems. "From my own and other people's conversations with the Russians, I think they are impressed by what has been achieved lately," Bergson comments.
"What causes Russians most discomfort is housing," according to Bergson. The average city-dweller has a living space of only six square meters. Here, too, however, progress is being made. "On the way to Moscow's Vnukova airport," Bergson reports, "I saw more housing than I've ever seen in...
Besides results from this survey, the Administration says it will consider other recent suggestions such as letting students serve themselves, eliminating some meals, and serving some meals without seconds in deciding what actions it will then take.
One of yesterday's observers reported that almost 400 of the 466 students who ate at Lowell House last night came back for seconds or took two helpings the first time around. The researchers also checked the speed of the lines, and studied what food was eaten and what was...
Doty, who visited Russia in May 1958 after an invitation from the Academy of Sciences, was impressed by the rapidly rising ability of Soviet scientists. Though he considered them still slightly behind the United States as a scientific nation, he warned that "it is the gradient rather than the level...