Word: sovietize
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1960
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...also said that all Soviet students going into meteorology, and presumably several other branches of science, receive a strong basic education in fundamental mathematics and physics. He felt that American colleges and universities, except for Harvard, do not use this approach, with the result that the Soviets have "far more" physical meteorologists with adequate preparation in basic math and physics than does...
...plea that the East and the West "temper their conflict and allow the Congolese themselves to come together and solve their problems." If this is not done, Takizala foresaw the possibility of the Congo's becoming "another Korea," a divided country with Western influence centered in Leopoldville and Soviet influence dominating stanleyville...
Sohn was, however, impressed by the calibre of the Russian representatives. "The Russians sent their best people," he continued, "which perhaps indicates that the Russians are more serious about disarmament than the Americans." The Soviet group included Nobel Prize winners, while the American group did not have...
What I cannot accept, however, is his account of Russians assuring me that they had no hostile images of the United States and that they objected to Khrushchev's demolition of the Summit. What I did say was that during my short visit to the Soviet Union last summer I was struck by the absence of hostility to myself and my traveling companions as Americans--despite the fact that we reached Russia just after the Powers trial, when popular feeling against our country might be presumed to be at its height. I had no such conversations as Mr. Smith reports...
...cold war is not a battle for men's minds," declared Harriman, former Governor of New York and Ambassador to the Soviet Union. "The Communists are engaged in such a battle, but it is our objective to free men's minds...