Kremlin Faces Youth Labor Gap in Soviet Education
The Kremlin struggles with graduates unable to enter higher education or find vocational paths. Khrushchev cites about 700,000 secondary school leavers yearly needing work, prompting mass labor mobilizations to build industry, farms, and rail and oil pipelines. Some youths resist factory work, prompting discussion of reordering secondary education toward broader vocational training.
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Thomas P. Whitney
New York
Kremlin
Nikita Khrushchev
Khrushchev
Siberia
Far North
Central Asia
Moscow
Komsomol Pravda
Communist League
Kazakhstan
Political Angle on Soviet Higher Education Policy
The text notes a harder path for secondary school graduates to enter higher education and technical schools in the Soviet Union. It highlights a 1956-57 shift to curb student unrest by routing more graduates into manual labor and increasing recruitment from workers with labor experience in Soviet enterprises.
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Kremlin
Seventeen! Bernard Lansky Horse Show Shriners Link
The event runs Friday with seven classes at 3 p.m and eight more after 7 30 p.m including open harness open Palomino parade and open 5 gaited. Shows also at 2 and 7 30 p.m Saturday and Sunday. Shriners expect full entries from the Midwest and offer over 12000 dollars in premiums. The Shrine ceremonial joins the week with a downtown Cedar Rapids parade Thursday at 3 p.m headlined by the Wilson six horse hitch and Shrine white horse patrol.
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Shriners
Midwest
Iowa
Cedar Rapids
Wilson
Shrine White Horse Mounted Patrol
Sioux City
Khrushchev Humor and the Stalin comparison
A London psychiatrist says Nikita Khrushchev cannot become another Stalin, noting his sense of humor and puckish temperament. The analyst describes Khrushchev as extroverted, gamblerish, and driven by late schooling, with a manic-depressive pattern that fuels rapid ambitions and a need to rise to the top.
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Charles H. Klensch
London
UPI
Nikita Khrushchev
Stalin
Khrushchev
Hitler
Napoleon
Messiah
England
U.S
John Foster Dulles
Dulles
Flat Top building to house first jets at Idlewild
New York AP reports a building at Idlewild International Airport is under construction to house the first jet airliners for domestic service. The flat roof will be 754 feet long and 360 feet wide, spanning more than twice a football field.
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New York
Idlewild International Airport
One Admission for Both Horse Shows on Friday
A 2-for-1 admission covers both Friday performances opening the 7th annual El Kabir Shrine Horse Show at Hawkeye Downs alongside a three day carnival. Reserved seats go on sale Monday night and a single admission will admit attendees to both afternoon and night shows. Ticket Chairman Ernie Gun-
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el Kabir Shrine
Hawkeye Downs
Shrine
Oneubmission
Ernie Gun
Atlas Missile Test Firing Rates as Real Production
Cape Canaveral reports detail the Atlas intercontinental missile test firing process. Final countdown spans about 40 minutes with a 35 minute gantry roll, 3,500 feet retreat from the pad, and a 300-measurement blockhouse setup before a 0 second launch.
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Cape Canaveral
Nea
Convair
Atlas Air Frame
Gines
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