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Khrushchev Says
Russian Engineers
Surpass Americans
BHAKRA DAM, Northern In
dia, LA — Premier Bulganin and
Nikita Khrushchev toured India’s
375-million-dollar irrigation and
power project today with Ameri
can dam builder Harvey Slocum
as their guide.
Spirited conversations between
Khrushchev, the Soviet Commun
ist party chief, and Slocum, chief
consultant of the dam, enlivened
the tour in which the Russian
party of more than 100 waf>
guided through miles of construc
tion work.
As Slocum showed the top So
viet leaders a view of the pro
jected 680-foot concrete dam—to
be the second highest in the world
— the stocky Khrushchev turned
to the American engineer and
said: “American engineers were
helpful to Russia in the early
days. We learned a good deal
from them, but now we are in
competition and soon we will pass
them.”
“Competition is a good thing, it
helps progress,” Slocum replied.
“It is very good,” Khrushchev
echoed.
Some 50 other Americans, em
ployed as consultants and tech
nicians on the dam project, work
ed at their jobs as the Russians
went around.
Walunga and Iknokinok Shatter
Easterners’ Illusions Of How
St. Lawrence Island Eskimos Live
By ARTHUR EDSON i
AP News Feature Writer '
WASHINGTON, UR — A couple
of heroic Eskimos are in town,
shattering illusions right and left.
The Eskimos, both members of
the Alaska National Guard, were
honored at the Pentagon Tuesday
for leading a party to the speedy
rescue of 11 members of a Navy
patrol plane shot down by the
Russians over Bering Sea June 22.
M/Sgt. Willis Walunga, 31, and
Sgt. 1/c Clifford Iknokinok, 28,
got citations and had Navy wings
pinned on them, quite unusual for
earthbound landlubbers.
If they were impressed, they
didn‘t show it. They seemed more
interested in, and amused by, re
actions to their comments on life
as it is lived on St. Lawrence
Island, only 30 miles from Siberia.
Most people are aware by now
that most Eskimos don’t live in
igloos, and Walunga drove that
point home neatly.
“Igloos? Sure, I’ve seen an igloo.
The same place you saw an igloo,
in a geography book.”
Dressed in their warm winter
costumes, they dropped by the
Smithsonian Institution for a look
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at how scholars think Eskimos
live.
“Interesting,” observed Walunga
the more talkative Eskimo. “I
now have seen the second kayak
of my life. I saw one, on a rack,
in Nome once. We use open skin
boats.”
Walunga and Iknokinok hunt
for a living, when they aren’t Na
tional Guarding. They aren’t par
ticular about what they get, wal
rus, seal, fox or whale.
“We eat them all, except the
fox,” Iknokinok said.
“The walrus is good eating,”
Walunga said. “Walrus liver is
better than cow’s liver.”
With Christmas coming on, it’s
dismaying to report this, but facts
must be faced up to courageously:
there’s a reindeer shortage on St.
Lawrence Island.
“Overgrazed,” Iknokinok said.
“We’re down to 200.”
Walunga, a father of three, says
this worries Eskimo small fry, too.
“Sure they believe in Santa
Claus,” he said. “They think he
lives at the North Pole. But maybe
we have enough reindeer left.”
Well, it’s a relief to know the
Eskimos are on the job, not only
because they saved 11 fliers and
hustled them off to a hospital, but
also because they seem so alert at
a place where alertness is needed.
Take this example.
They were walking through
that incredible maze of inner cor
ridors in the Pentagon when a ie
porter asked Walunga, “Which
way is north?”
WitHout even bothering to look
for moss on the Pentagon walls,
Walunga jerked his thumb over
his shoulder. “Back that way,” he
said.
The reporter dropped over to
Iknokinok, who hadn’t heard the
exchange, and asked him the same
question. “Right behind me,” he
said.
A check with one of our native
guards, who had a roadmap of the
Pentagon terrain, showed the Es
kimos were right.
The awed concensus: a clever,
useful people, these Eskimos.
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