U.S. LOOKS TO SOVIET WAY IN RACE FOR MORE SCIENTISTS

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000200430048-7
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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 17, 1999
• Sequence Number: 48
• Publication Date: November 21, 1956
• Content Type: NSPR

DETROIT NEWA
NOV 21 1956
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RED GAINS `PHENOMENAL' Dr. John Tuikevich r-e nl-,
iprofessorof chemistry at `_`,nce-'
were' "among the beet in' inn
U.S. ay orld."
He said, "there is a te>t on
chemistry which is supers i
in R~e Scientist 9L1More tt y class of 300 students withonis
first reading the approp ate
By ALLEN SHOXNFIELba apter in that book.
Staff Correspondent of The iietrott Nev s nomenal: cream of 'the . ,,er,'W is funnele "Russia is flooded with excel-
PUPILS REWARDED into the universities for ap i 1 nt, inexpensive texts. In this
-A ' rica, with all its technic 1 tensive five-year course; th e untry, publishers continually
1 Dr. Herbert Scoville Jr., as- others, less talented, are traine ge us to `cut it down'; in Rus-
know-how, may yet have to bo - sistant director o f the_IJ - as technicians. s a, text writers are r e q u e s t e d ,o
row, heavily from, uss bag at
. rah Tnt - "Scholarships are given to a e
' ussia's accelerated pro- gage in exhaustive dissceta-
pedagogical tricks o produce t who can qualify," Scoville sai t ns-and they are paid by the
ductionui u aisle l1?'ainpower to "
These are graduated in
amoun
sCixitlsts and p ge."
fiictors: control. of thesec- depending on the course of stud
tion ur
RE
BEL DANGEROUS
ged r uires curriculum and enroll
4-.k.: selected and on hose badly cn
Turkevich, born in the United
ernment representative partic
.patine in an institute called b
the Thomas Alva Edison Found
tion to, plan "Strengthening Sc
ence_1ducatI9q.. for Youth an
fndyig ht -
Hof . the . canfcrenc
was the :panel discussion of th
Russian educational s y s t e
whose growth during the last 2 j
angers insciepcel and the vastIStates, we feel that all must b
rofes-
pgradfn of he teachin
g p
Sion both,, 09, lly and economi-
cally.
Scoville said that Soviet edu-
cation has been keyed to pro-
uce scientists. Three-quarters of
free in Russia but students re
ceive a wage comparable to tha
paid the. average worker in in
dustry.
ates of Russian parents, held
t'at.the great advances in
s ience have come from "creative
r search" and that the political
c 'mate of Russia has not been
c nducive to such endeavors.
all Russian youths graduate fromi DU rkAL, 'LLAL,f rte asserLen'. __ine erf,V'ive
is a rebe' and it ha> lx~en
he 10th grade. All are exposer';' "Sixty per cent of universit an
arly to the basic sciences w th- ,graduates ego into teaching. Ther d ngerous to he a rebel in 1'u.-
', hr lbtng has been given the high !--f, until the recent downgrad-'
est priority. Much honor an :;19 of Stalin. Now the story :may
social prestige attach to the pro b different.
fesgxi_ ; The Soviet is stt'on s in
4,0J .rubles a In0R -or abOlu i. st modification', by Martian
- etfine. It is weakest in biol oev
10 es the amount pa..id an in
dg 1 worker d biochemistry because of he
univer'si ies d the Peet ' rfy line. It has shown some
ago al institutes 4, degrcc -'z of genius in mathernaticai
in fth educat on an science -iysics and bar built. the bit;ga!st
Uri the United States, when n st and fastest. electronic brain j
a ed teacher may chance a o the continent. It has one'out:-
of?o s to instruct in science standing scientist in astrophysics.
I without sufficient back , "It is largely an imitator in
gro tl, Russia demands a pro
l
t
b
n c
ear power reac
ors
ut it will
fes al scientist who is fs It ve several in operation before i
sig to teach. t e United States. Our six hil-
"Moreover, teachers are n
allowed* to stagnate. They arc 11 n electron volt accelerator at:
req red to take a competitive tl galifornia Institute of Tech-
exa inatlon every five years t logy, with its 9,000-ton magnet, i
demonstrate their proficiency 11 be dwarfed by the Soviet's
and 'to hold their jobs." billion volt machine with a
Participants in the panel di,;- 3 .000-ton magnet-and they are
cussion, who 'have, studied the p inning another of 50 billion
Soviet school t ystein recently, el 'ctron volts."
re'iarfed that release from the
,jacket of Stalinism has in-
al in classrooms. For the first
ti students are encouraged to
tart ,`othing for granted,'to raise
que Ions, to argue with their
iristr'actors.
HALF ARC WOMEN
A gumeut wa$, said to be as-
eur .by tl, a fact that about one-
haif ' iversit students are
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