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...baby the night before his flight, that he had climbed into the Vostok as calmly as if he were taking off on a fishing trip. At a press conference in Moscow's green and white House of Sciences, Gagarin and a group of scientists, including Aleksandr N. Nesmeyanov, president of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (TIME cover, June 2, 1958), added little new information, but they rehashed the flight with unflagging enthusiasm. And they promised to release more scientific data soon. Told that U.S. newsmen had suggested he came from a princely family, Gagarin cracked: "I express my regret...
...gets every facility and encouragement. He goes right on trying to change nature in far-out ways by grafting pine branches on fir trees, injecting the blood of Plymouth Rock chickens into Buff Orpington hens, trying to turn wheat into rye. He complains righteously against Science Academy President Aleksandr Nesmeyanov (TIME cover, June 2, 1958) for criticizing his experiments. Says he pointedly: "I am infinitely happy that my modest work is highly prized by the party government and Nikita Khrushchev in person...
...required by Soviet protocol, the first scientist Gushchev and Vasiliev interviewed was Aleksandr Nikolaevich Nesmeyanov, president of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (TIME cover, June 2 1958) "We must learn to dream," he said. "We do not always care to dream, nor are we always capable of dreaming, but without dreams, prospects do not exist and without dreams man, the scientist included, is halted in his progress...
...River. Nesmeyanov is a world-famed organic chemist, and certainly capable of dreaming impressive scientific dreams. But the book that Komsomolskaya Pravda's reporters assembled is singularly meager in scientific imagination. One chapter predicts for the 21st century the mechanization of mines-which is already an accomplished fact in many non-Communist countries. Another tells about hydroelectric stations very run-of-the-river examples, that will be built in 50 years in Siberia. A chapter on surgery describes techniques and operations that have been standard in the outside world for many years. Almost the only unfamiliar glimpse...
...accident that all this coincided with fairly strong criticism of Khrushchev's educational reform plan by Nesmeyanov and other academicians, who do not like its provision for putting all students to work. At a recent Moscow meeting, Nesmeyanov reportedly toed the line: the time has come to glorify Soviet scientific achievements as the unique outgrowth of Marxist philosophy. Lysenko is not the type to accept political without professional vindication. In the field of Soviet genetics. Khrushchev's announcement that academic and research projects will henceforth get funds in proportion to their showing in the cowshed rather than...