Word: ata
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From Alma Ata, in the remote Soviet Socialist Republic of Kazakstan, came news last week that mountain-climbing members of the "Lokomotiv" sports club had discovered a new peak in the Zailisky Ala Tau range, near the Chinese frontier. They named it, reported Pravda, after the "prominent Negro singer and progressive public leader, Paul Robeson...
Russia's Joseph Stalin had his usual amazing political luck: he ran for city deputy of 1) Tiflis, 2) Frunze, 3) Alma Ata, got every last vote cast...
Palo & Piñata. This week, as always, the highlight of each posada (literally, an inn) was the breaking of the piñata, a big clay pot. The piñata, filled with presents and decorated with gay streamers, was hung from the ceiling. One by one guests were blindfolded, spun around, and allowed to crack at the pinata with a palo (stick). Usually they missed. Then the smallest child was allowed to split it open, whereupon everyone dived for the shower of candies, fruits and toys...
...last week Lieut. Redin seemed like a stranger all over again. He had been arrested on a Portland, Ore. pier, dressed in a sweatshirt and grey slacks, just as he was getting aboard the Soviet Steamship Alma Ata. The FBI had arrested him as a spy. He had been under "intensive observation" for months, said the FBI, which charged that he had "induced another to obtain plans, documents and writings relating to the Yellowstone, a U.S. destroyer tender." The information, it added, "was to be used to the advantage of a foreign nation, to wit: the U.S.S.R...
Prodigious Apple. Alma-Ata is a beautiful city amid the snow-capped Altai Mountains. This capital of the Kazak Republic is nearer Chungking than Moscow. It has 400,000 population (40,000 in 1925), was not reached by the railroad until...