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...book has one serious fault: it is written so far downhill, presumably for the largest possible Russian audience, that the prose is sometimes little better than primer talk. The interesting thing about The Train is that Panova still finds the same kind of Russian characters under the Soviet skin...
...Club System Con" is hardly more enlightening. The writer (also anonymous) seems casual and tired of it all even at the beginning. He dallies with a few truisms (that the New England aristocracy isn't much of an aristocracy, and that much of Harvard's "apathy" is the fault of the Clubs), but his case is confused, contradictory in places, and concludes bitterly by comparing the System to "a roach on the wall...
First, improvement of the teaching effectiveness of lecturers, advisors, and section men. The report says that the University-College balance is partially at fault, the faculty members have to devote too much time to their specialty and not enough to the undergraduates. If this is correct, perhaps the Administration could insist that all Faculty members devote more of their working hours to the College, as GE instructors already do. Perhaps also the Administration should consider a man's ability to teach as well as to publish when it makes promotions and appointments. And if Faculty members would read the Poskanzer...
...days at Washington's National Zoological Park. Then the Navy medics want the carcass for an autopsy, just in case they have missed something. Pig No. 311 appears to be normal in every way except one: she is sterile. Was this the A-bomb's fault? Said a Navy spokesman cagily: ". . . Not necessarily . . . Ordinarily, enough gamma rays to cause sterility also will kill the victim...
Quantity. In experiments last year Umbaugh induced three foster pregnancies, but all aborted. He believes now that the fault was multiple pregnancy: he had injected 15 ova at once, and cows have difficulty in carrying even twins. In future, he intends to insert only one fertilized ovum into each foster...