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...Alphand, wife of the French ambassador, "looked as if they have been arranged by a human hand instead of by a florist." It was a warm and friendly gathering. President Kennedy in his new club coat and striped trousers managed to talk to almost every guest except Russian Ambassador Mikhail Menshikov. (Attorney General Bobby Kennedy did the family honors. Smiling Bobby invited Smiling Mike down to the Justice Department, "where we check up on Communist spies...
...July or August." Khrushchev: "And how many pages were there in your note?" Lysenko: "About 20." Khrushchev: "Then they read 20 pages in six months. They read slowly in the Agriculture Ministry." By then, the Agriculture Minister had already been shipped off to the Virgin Lands. His successor: Professor Mikhail Olshansky, who has been Lysenko's right-hand man ever since Lysenko established himself as the boss of Soviet genetics...
...recent issue of Soviet Weekly, Academician Mikhail Lavrentyev, vice president of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, berated Soviet schools and universities for not producing more and better trained scientists. Much of the trouble, he said, comes from the "divorce" between research institutes and universities. The best scientists avoid becoming university professors because they fear being loaded with so much teaching that they can do little or no research. They prefer the institutes, which do research only. Attempts by education authorities to make the institutes into centers of scientific education have come to little. The institute directors will not cooperate because...
...Soviet Union's top polio authority, Professor Mikhail Chumakov, boasted last week that 77 million Russians have taken Sabin vaccine (made in Moscow), and that the threat of seasonal polio epidemics has gone...
...biggest question of all, East-West relations, Moscow Radio kept recalling that in his campaign Kennedy promised to "recapture the spirit of Franklin Roosevelt," and Nikita Khrushchev hinted that with Kennedy in office U.S.-Soviet ties should revert to the cor diality of F.D.R.'s times. Ambassador Mikhail Menshikov has been telling everybody in Washington who may have Kennedy's ear that Moscow is ready to forget all about the U-2 unpleasantness if "progress" can now be chalked up-say, in extending the nuclear test suspension and in starting afresh on disarmament talks. Specifically, Khrushchev is said...