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Here is a picture of Henry Winston, blinded by medical Neglect in U.S. jails, with a Young Soviet girl who had of- fered him her eyes.

They met in Moscow re- Cently .. . the Negro Com- Munist leader, persecuted in his home country, and 20- year-old Rosa _ Shafigulina, from Tomsk.

Declining her offer last i arch, Winston wrote to her: Remember that your eyes Shine much clearer than any two jewels in any diadem. hey must remain so.”

He met her for the first time on Sept. 9, and said what @ “kind, warm, human per- ang she was. Her action was Ypical of people building a ‘Ommunist society and inspir- Mg people everywhere.

ae a few days time, he said, 3 € trial of Communist lead- TS would begin in the U.S. It, Wasa war of reaction against

te democracy, against the Negro

She offered her eyes...

people’s struggle for freedom and their rights.

The young Komsomol Rosa shared the affeetion for the peoples of the*werld that was characteristic of Sovtet youth. Hers was a fine example of support to the struggles of the American people.

Rosa told correspondents she had offered her eyes because “peace is our common cause,” and Henry Winston needed her eyes “to struggle for Negro rights — in one year he can do more than perhaps I could do in all my life.”

She said she was overjoyed to hear from Soviet doctors that there was an improve- ment in Winston’s sight.

She is studying modern languages at Tomsk teachers’ training college, has an elder brother and two younger sis- ters. Her father was killed in the war in 1942 and she never knew him.

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4 his space travels man ;», meet anti-man, Academi- hing. Mola Semyonov, Nobel ine chemist declared ag

mete might get to know, toulg love one another, but The Not touch,” he said. they moment they touched, he Would explode with a vena greater than the

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"9 * * * lop Ur galaxy is built of mat-

tn, sisting of protons, neu- Monier tt electrons,” explained i, mician Semyonov. “But it buy Ssible other galaxies are Motone, anti-matter —~ anti- ae ncutrons and anti-

telag these worlds anti-par- oud be stable and our Other 1: unstable,” he said. Monte living organisms, other

Scie Might be found there.”

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Gornted rate, he said.

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able to achieve controlled ther- monuclear reaction, which promises quite grandiose pros- pects for the development of world energetics.”

Already there existed “the real possibility of satisfying at the highest level all the mater- ial and spiritual needs of every man living on this earth.”

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But this aim could not be achieved without “the utter abolition of war as a means of settling disputes, without com- plete disarmament and peace- ful co-existence.”

* * *

In a message of greetings, Premier Khrushchev said he hoped the symposium would give scientists and educational workers “a fresh impetus to strengthen and extend contacts and co-operation.”

Prof. J. D. Bernal, of Britain, speaking on science and tech- nology in the world of the future, said the Soviet Union had won world recognition as the pace-maker in educational

advance.

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much like a West Berlin fugi- tive. The government is appar- ently hiring them as cheap la- bor. I think this should be taken up by the union which represents the ferry workers — if they have one; if they haven't, then it’s certainly time to organize one.

(Editor’s Note: To the best of our knowledge, ferry em- ployees have the choice of either belonging no place or joining the provincial civil ser- vants association. There is no union representing them.)

Proof Wanted

A. B. Dalziel, Saanichton, B.C., writes: Is it pure co-inci- dence that a chain of earth- quakes has been set off after the latest American under- ground nuclear tests? Had the Soviet Union conducted those tests there would have been no doubt in the western mind that the tests were to blame for the death and destruction in Iran.

It would seem to be the re- sponsibility of Americans to prove that their testing is not to blame.

“Technological education is no longer a matter of instilling good practice, because good practice now will certainly not be good practice in ten years’ time.

“This lag betwen teaching and experience is now becom- ing a very serious one and the detailed study of technology is being displaced by one of study of general principles.

“The world of the future will not be the cold war — divided, war-preparing world of the pre- sent,” he said.

“Nor will be it a world with enormous variations between the standard of living and the standard of productivity of the old industrial and the colonial or newly-liberated peoples.”

* * *

“The computer and its prac- tical application, automation, is the biggest discovery of our time,” said Prof. Bernal. Com- puters could be used for things which were never done, or even thought of, before.

In crystallography the analy- sis of “fantastically complicated structures like those of proteins

and nucleic acids’ could not have been done at all without computers.

It was time to end “the con- fusion of unplanned scientific advance,” he said, calling for a proper systematic communica- tions and information service— automized and using a common computer language.

Knowledge of the principles of automation had to become a regular part of scientific train- ing for the universities and technical colleges of the future.

* * *

Chemistry was now making substances to order and “we may soon be able to match and excel all biological materials.”

A big problem of today was to transform an elite education into mass education. Education was not now a function of school years but extended throughout life.

In this connection Pravda re- cently stated that almost 6,- 000,000 people in the Soviet

Union now combine their work

with studies, and over 3,000,000

attend evening schools.

The number of such schools will rapidly rise in the next few years to fulfil the aim of the Communist Party program:

secondary education for

all

young workers within the next

ten years.

WIFE: “And you keep telling me there’s no life on Mars!!!...”

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More on space

Poet Robert Frost has been doing some space research.

‘T've -been thinking in a scientific way lately,” the 88- year-old poet told students at Middlebury, Eng., College’s Bread Loaf School of English.

“Someone in Washington wants me to do something about glorifying America — something about the space age,” Frost said.

“The glory of it,” he added, ‘Gs that we’re making prome- thean defiance against the

unknowable — space. That’s glorious — and that’s as far as I go.

‘JT don’t know what will come of it. Maybe better com-'

munications between the steck markets of the world,” Frost concluded.

“Suppose I were to go to Mars right away,” Frost mused.

“Tf I were sure I were go- ing to Mars and ready to glory in it, I'd like to go and tell them about how many mis- takes we've made down here. I'd tell them what we did to the Indians. I’d tell them they’d better shoot me — if they have guns — and any more who came,’

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