European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 31, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes Friday july 31, 1959 vice president s russian phrases Delight crowds siberian san Ftp Dixon party for information by Francis Iuewine Sverdlovsk Russia a vice. President Richard m. Nixon has been exchanging Mir a Ruubas with russians for eight Days now and americans and russians have Learned new things about each other. Mir Druzba Means peace and  it is one of the few russian phrases Nixon Learned be fore he left. He uses it whenever he talks Here. It seems to Delight the russians. Whether Mir Druzba is some thing you say like hello or whether it has a really deep mean ing remains to be seen. Everyone with the Nixon party including the Large corps of Ameri can newsmen considers himself Good will ambassador or at least bound to answer questions. Lack of time and interpreters often makes it difficult to Chat with men women and children who come up in the crowds. But it is getting done. Why Don t More americans come Here Send More american work ers. Well put them up said a smiling russian in overalls at hydroelectric Lelant in Novosibirsk 2,500 Miles inside Siberia. Novosibirsk has been a City close to foreigners. Not far away High up on a dam above the churned water of the of River overlooking Fine country a group of russian men and women workers sur eager soviets Pinch peek at America ways Moscow up despite con Stant needling in the soviet press the . Exhibit at Moscow s so a Paniki Park is giving soviet Visi tors an unprecedented Chance to satisfy their immense curiosity about the american Way of life. The visitors Are not missing an Opportunity to ask pointed per Sonal and sometimes sceptical questions. From one end of the exhibit tothe other american guides officials and even tourists Are the Tenter of clusters of soviet citizens All eager to get first hand answers. Record crowds International business machine workmen whose ramac computer is answering thousands of questions every Day about american Inife for soviet visitors say the russians Are proving As materialistic As any americans they know. The fair is still drawing More than 50,000 visitors daily and officials Are holding off their Deci Sion on How Many daily tickets tissue on a final basis until next week when they Hope to be a Leto evaluate the problem of the Accord crowds better. Beautician paints Rosy picture for russians while a sceptical audience awaits the trans formation a russian girl receives a Beauty treat ment at the Helena Rubinstein cosmetic display at the . Exhibit in Moscow. Up device to sort us s Wai undies London a the British army which lately discovered it has 275 Miles of useless brass tub ing not to mention enough Long Woolen drawers to last the women s Royal army corps 800 years henceforth will keep an electronic Check on its supplies. By 1961, the army said All accounting and inventorying will be taken Over by a machine called Emi dec 2400. The makers claim it can make 1% million calculations in minute. A newsman raised the Specter of the army acquiring a vast and use less surplus of Emi decs. 5 hardly Likely old boy said a Chap at the War office. This one alone is costing 655,000  that is equivalent to $1,834,000. Air research approved Washington. A Senate House conferees have taken the first step toward creation of a National Institute for atmospheric research. The conferees approved a$500,000 allocation for planning the Institute Spain again boosts prices in overhaul Madrid up the Spanish government ordered a Sharp boost in the Price of tobacco and cig areas As part of a National fight for economic  official announcement said popular Brand Cigar ets would braised Between 20 and 37 per cent. The prices Are expected to become effective  is the second time within a week that a sweeping National eco ,250,000 paid for to station Oklahoma City up the Sale of television station Sfa twin Montgomery ala., for $2,250,000 has been announced by Way Tele vision systems inc., of Oklahoma City. Edward l. Gaylord Secretary treasurer of the Way system said the purchaser was the broadcasting co. Of the South owner of Tele visions stations in Columbia s.c., and a radio station in Charlotte,. Sale of " the Alabama station which had been owned by Way since 1955, must be approved by the Federal communications commis Sion. Nomic overhaul reached into the lives of the average spaniards. Wednesday the government in creased the Price of gasoline about40 per cent. Earlier the government announced an increase in the Cost of International telegrams and warned that rail fares inside Spain would be boosted 40 per cent oct. 10. All the Price increases were Parton the nation s plan for economic stabilization drafted to meet in trance requirements for the organization for european economic cooperation Reec and the in Ter National monetary fund. Less dramatic but More import ant was an announcement that about 100 items Basic to the National Economy had been freed from import  of the items on the list were commodities urgently needed for the National Economy. It in uak reopens Border Damascus a the unit Darab Republic has reopened its sealed syrian Frontier with Jor Dan. Land traffic Between both countries was resumed normally ending a 54-Day closing which has paralysed Trade Between the two Arab Powers since june 6. Refugees deplete skilled ranks of. A Fonn up communist East Germany s factories hospitals and universities Are suffering because of the continued flood of refugees Toi West Germany the Bonn government reports. The bulletin the government s  news publication says that Juring the first half of this year 155 prof Essers lecturers assistants West Berlin s refugee Center  addition there were 443 engineers and technicians and 161doctors, the bulletin reports the flood of refugees is causing East Germany growing concern it. The shortage of specialists i asked to breakdowns in factory production hundreds of vacancies i universities and a Lack of medical personnel in hospitals. Ill Erik  flu. I., l. Since May 1958, 77 professor Sand lecturers from the Halle Wittenberg University fled to the West according to the bulletin the Dresden medical Academy also lost 10 per gent of its lecturers including,17 department Heads and specialists it reports. Altogether in the past five years the bulletin says 2,763 doctors fled to West Germany. Eluded Petroleum Petroleum derivatives natural and synthetic rub Bers animal oils vegetable fibres Woods ores chemicals locomotives turbines machine tools railway parts scrap Iron and fuels. It also set up a list of 37 coun tries including the 17 other Mem Bers of the Reec from which the imports could be made. Rounded the two newspapermen demanding to know Why the .didn t Stop atomic bomb testing. There were the party followers the Friendly and. The frankly curious. A 20-year-old girl graduate of technological Institute who spoke English although she has never been out of Remote Novosibirsk in her life was searching for Ameri can magazines to read. A new yorker Magazine was All anyone had on hand. She got it with promises correspondents would mail More magazines from Home. A . Embassy aide said he could t be sure she d get them. When is president Eisenhower coming a Young physics student asked. President s brother Nixon began to announce publicly that the president s brother or. Milton Eisenhower was along an introduced him to people in City Halls and  Leningrad and Novosibirsk Nixon attended the Ballet. Lenin Grad is a City with a cultural past linked with the splendor of the czars. Novosibirsk is a Frontier in the soviet Industrial plan a City Only 50 years old where about Hal of the Homes Are log houses. But in both a huge opera House dominates the scene and Ballet is performed with professional and technical skill that in Large Meas ure matches Moscow s Bolshoi or the stage effects of  youth in Novosibirsk who spoke in halting English wanted to be sure we wrote about the Novosibirsk Ballet with its com Pany of 1,500. Quick to laugh the russians who come to see Nixon Are Quick to respond to humorous  Sverdlovsk Airport Nixon chatted with people standing near the Fence. Learning that one pretty16-year-old dark haired girl could speak English he suggested with a smile that she practice on  girl blushed shyly. I Don t know russian but i say it Nixon coaxed trying out a russian phrase. People around were smiling As a translator filled them  saw the girl was getting very embarrassed and he moved off with a goodbye and a wave. As returned his Back the girl called after him Goodby in perfect English. Russians and americans around burst into laughter european edition ripes army Navy air Force col John d. Nottingham Usan editor in chief it col t. J. Cunningham jr., Usa ass editor in chief Nathan j. Margolin managing editor Jack Ellis sports editor Homer a. Cable f8a\ure editor Elmer 6. Fran production manager directory of news bureaus England South Ruislip a c Wallow 4300 ext 471 or 472. France Paris Balzac 5400 c ext 468 Germany Darmstadt newsroom c 75366 ext 16 Stuttgart c 84215 Spain Madrid 123 fue Carral bldg. 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