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Teachers enrolling ten or more students in the program also receive specially produced teaching aids like The Year 2000, written for the TEP by Dr. Isaac Asimov, one of the nation's leading commentators on the future, and The 50th Anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution. Aside from quizzes in the guide, TIME'S famous 100-question Current Affairs Test is also given to students in the program. Last year over 2.5 million students checked their knowledge of current events by this test. Other aids include: TIME CAPSULE/1941, a condensation of that historic year as reported in the pages...
...50th annual meeting of the American Dietetics Association got a special after-desert treat yesterday...
...Government analysts point out that the Soviet growth figures may be slightly inflated in order to create a festive atmosphere for the 50th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution. Furthermore, the Russians often include in their output figures the value of the semi-finished goods imported and only finished in Soviet factories. The Washington economists also point out that to boost the statistics this year the Kremlin is concentrating on completing plants already started - and getting them into production - rather than on new factories to redound to the economy's benefit later...
...long-neglected Russian consumer is coming in for a larger slice of the new and bigger economic pie. A Russian who has the money no longer has to wait for weeks to buy a TV set or a simple household convenience such as a refrigerator. In anticipation of 50th-anniversary celebrations planned for this fall, shops in the major cities are filled with colorful merchandise of fair to high quality. The regime is even doing something for those millions of Russians who have never known the luxury of dry cleaning: the government has grandly announced that the number...
...popular target for tourists. In 1956, fewer than 500,000 foreigners were adventurous enough to travel through the U.S.S.R.-one-eighth the number that visited France the same year-and about three-quarters of them were from the Communist countries of Eastern Eu rope. This year, which marks the 50th anniversary of the Revolution, Russia expects more than 1,500,000 tourists. At least half of them will be dutiful European Communists. But there will be many French and British, a few Arabs and Africans, and about 25,000 Americans (up from 2,000 a decade...