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Russia today as
Suggested
' The following periodicals
dealing with Russia have been
recommended by the staff of
Love Memorial Library fcr
students and others who want
to know more about the So
viet Union.
In addition to these maga
6Sky Show' Shows Past
'Summer school students
looking for an Inexpensive
evening of good entertainment
should enjoy one of our shows
at the Ralph Mueller Plane
tarium," according to J. A.
Howe, coordinator of the
planetarium.
The planetarium is offering
two programs this summer.
"The Expanding Universe" is
now showing and will continue
through July 31. "Brazilian
Nights" begins on Aug. 1 and
runs through Oct. 2.
"The Expanding Universe"
tells about the early days of
astronomy when it was be
lieved that the universe ex
tended only as far as the
naked eye could see. It shows
how stars were used for navi
gation and tells of a science
called astrology.
"Brazilian Nights" will give
the viewer a display of con
stellations seen only in the
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of BoTUt Socialist Republics
shown by map of USSR's economic zones.
Readings on Russia
zines devoted whooly to Rus
sia, the librarians report that
such American magazines as
"Foreign Affairs, Current His
tory" and "Western World"
carry articles on Russia fre
quently. The June, 1960, issue of "At-
Southern Hemisphere. A dis
play of the Aurora Australia
and Aurora Borealis (North
ern and Southern lights) also
will be shown.
The programs will be shown
at 2:45 p.m. Monday through
Friday; 8:00p.m. Monday,
Wednesday and Friday; and
2:30 and 3:45 p.m. on Satur
day and Sunday. v
Admission is $.25 for all un
dergraduate and graduate stu
dents; $.50 for non-students.
Grant Aids Soil Study
The University of Nebraska
Department of Agronomy has
received a $1,500 grant from
the S e r w i n-Williams Com
pany. It was given through
the University Foundation for
research. The grant will be
used for research on the zinc
deficiency of Nebraska soils
in relation to crop production.
lantic Monthly" has a special
section devoted to Russian
arts and culture.
Russian Periodicals
lariei HIhHrtts A survey of Soviet
.thought ana aeveiopmeau in jsngiisn
translation. A Kltction of articles
translated from a wide variety of So
viet periodicals. Articles from educa
tion science and literature.
Krekedll For Russian readers. The
famed Soviet Humor" magaxuie.
Noted mainly for its attack on the
non -communist world, it also yields a
harvest of satire on contemporary USSR.
Sevlet Literature A monthly journal of
current soviet wnuni. ruousnea oy
the Union of Soviet Writers, this
magazine is one of the best indexes
to the current line on Soviet art.
Soviet Union Illustrated monthly; a
Soviet view of their life in pictures ana
text. The English version of a mag
azine published in sixteen languages.
Heavily nropagandietic hut indicative
of Communist attitudes.
USSR Illustrated monthly published by
reciprocal agreement between u.e
United States and the Soviet Union.
USSR is published by Russia in the
United States ot interpret Russia to
Americana. America is published by
the United States in ' Russia for So
viet consumption.
8eviet Studies A ejaarterly review ef the
serial and economic institutions ef the
USSR. A scholarly British revitw of
Soviet social affairs.
The American Slavic and East Europrm
Review This review is published for
the American Association for the Ad
vancement of Slavic Studies bv col :r
bia University, ecomomic and cultural
aspects of Russia and East European
countries.
The Russian1 ReviewAn American quart
erly devoted to Russian past and pres
ent. The purpose of this review is
to interpret the real aims of the
Kussian people as opposed to Soviet
communism.
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Khrushchev touch an American oven on
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Harvard Economist Discusses USSR
By Mary Louise Reese
The Russian people are ex
erting "political pressure"
economically on their gov
ernment "planners."
Even Nikita Khrushchev is
feeling the pressure.
, Nicholas DeWitt of the Har
vard University Russian Re
search Center, a specialist in
Russian ' economics, not only
believes these statements,
but also calmly asserted that
the Russian "planners" are
having to meet the economic
demands of the people.
Dollar Vote
How do people in a Com
munist country make de
mands politically or econom
ically? Even in the Communist
Even fn the Communist
ruled countries the dollar
vote, as economists term
the demand for or against
products shown by buying
patterns of consumers, is a
weapon of the people, he
says.
DeWitt, on campus to pre
sent the first World. Affairs
Preview Wednesday after
noon, said, "I don't'lhink
they can continue indefinite
ly to neglect the consumers'
wants."
So long as the Russian
people had nothing or very
little, he continued, they
could be satisfied by very lit-
Mary Louise Reese is a jun
ior in the University of Ne
braska school of journalism
and editor of the Summer Ne
braskan. She is president of
Theta Sigma Phi, women's
journalism fraternity, associ
ate editor of Scrip, University
literary magazine, a member
of Kappa Tau Alpha, journal
ism honorary and a Journal
ism Gold Key winner.
tie. The more they get, the
more the Russian people,
like people everywhere,
want.
Pressure Builds Up
"It's really a kind of pres
sure that builds up within
the community," he said.
The pressure is not out
ward, but from within the
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GENE CLARK
people. Once they have bet
ter goods, they will not
buy the old inferior prod
ucts again, he explained.
The inferior products re
main on the shelves, and
the planners have to give
the people higher quality.
He added that every time
the Russians learn a little
more about higher standards
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of living in the Western
countries, such as the Unit
ed States, they want higher
standards of living for them
selves. Hits Soviet Power
The pressure for higher
qualities of consumer prod
ucts is political pressure be
cause it strikes at the power
of the government to allo
cate resources.
The Soviet government, he
explained, can allocate its re
sources much more freely
than our government can.
This is the source of its pres
ent scientific rise.
Russia gains interna
tionally by keeping re
sources away from the
Russian people, DeWitt
said.
Yet Russia has less to be-
ein with than we do, ac
cording to DeWitt. The Gross
National Product, the total
goods produced during a fis
cal year by all branches of
the economy, of Soviet Rus-
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display in Moscow during the U. S. Exhi
bition. According to Nicholas DeWitt, this
is where economic pressure begins.
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sia totals only 40 of the
Gross National Product of
the United States, he said.
Less Per Capita Income
The Soviet Union has ap
proximately 210 million peo
ple. If the same proportion
of the Gross National Prod
uct of each country were
distributed to the people, the
Russians would only have
26 as much per person per
year as each American.
And Russia retains a
larger percentage of her
national output for govern
mental purposes than our
government does.
These two factors, lower
total output and higher gov
ernmental retention, main
tain the low standards of
living in the Soviet Union to
day, DeWitt said.
In view of living condi
tions, "four to six people or
sometimes two families in
the same room," he ex
plained, it is not difficult to
understand why a higher per
centage cf the educated
women of Russia work than
do the educated American
women.
Honor Working Wives
Although the government
makes it "honorific, for the
family" if the woman works,
he said, supplementing the
family income may be the
primary factor.
Quoting his own book, "Ed
ucation and Professional Em
ployment in the USSR," to
be published in November
by the National Academy of
sciences and National Re
search Council, DeWitt
showed that the percentages
of women working in most
fields requiring training were
higher in Russia than in
America.
More Women
One explanation, he noted.
is the balance of. 55 women
and 45 men per 100 citizens
over 20 in Russia. "Under
the age of 20," he said,
normal balance is retored.'
Due to the war and the
ensuing balance of more
women than men, 55 per
cent of all college students
in Russia ere women.
There are more trained
women to enter most fields.
Despite "paper equality"
of the sexes, he continued,
"in reality the educational
reform which is underway
now will give more prefer
ence to men" for higher edu
cation. Under Khrushchev's pro
posals for educational re
form, students will work full
time for 18 months to two
years before completing their
education.
Proportions Shifting
"In fact, during the last
three years the proportion of
women among students in
higher education has declined
slightly," DeWitt said.
"I don't think this is suf
ficient at the present time to
be considered a definite
trend, but it is there."
But today women still
provide one-third of all en
gineers withotu adminis
trative responsibilities and
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more than half of the work-'
ers in "lower echelon"
fields requiring higher ed
ucation. .
Women never seem to
reach the "higher echelons"
of plant management ana
higher administrative and
political offices, he com
mented, in spite of ."paper
equality" in a supposecuy
classless society.
Rheumatic
Fever Is
NJJ Target
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beta strept, which causes the
human tissue to build up au
toantibodies against complex
chemical structures or mu
copolysaccharides which
make up part of the heart
tissues. They are called auto
antibodies because thje body
builds them against its own
tissue. One of these au
toantibodies may be pro
duced against chondroitin
sulfate, which is one of the
mucopolysaccharides. .
"Consequently," he point
ed out, "subsequent expo
sure to the strept alone is
enough to cause this hyper
sensitivity." Bacteria in Blood Serum
When the test rabbits for
the experiment are inoculat
ed with the streptococcus
preparation, they are later
bled. The serum, or clear
portion of the blood, is ex
tracted, and is found to con
tain antibodies against the
strept bacteria.
"If we can prove that
the presence of the strep
tococcus in the animal's
heart also causes its body
to produce autoantibodies,
then it would be possible to
produce a substance to pre
vent heart damage from
rheumatic fever," he said.
However, the fact that the
strept bacteria by themselves
cause the production of auto
antibodies hasn't yet been
proved. "That's what we're
working on," Dr.. Engel
hard added .
Side Effect: Arthritis
"We get an intersting side
affect in these rabbits," he
said. "In addition to showing
heart damage, they develop
an arthritic condition in their
joints. We can isolate the
strept from the fluid in these
joints."
And since the rabbit pro
duces antibodies against the
strept, he added, it would,
stand to reason that if the
serum from the rabbit's
serum from the rabbit's
blood, which .would contain
antibodies against the strept,
were inoculated into other
rabbits, and the rabbits then
exposed to streptococci, the
antibodies should prevent the
production of arthritis by the
streptococci.
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