Word: ata
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Kazakhstan (pop. 9,300,000), almost as big as all of Western Europe, is second only to the Ukraine as the breadbasket of the nation. It is Russia's top lead and zinc producer, the second-largest source of copper. Its capital, Alma-Ata (Father of Apples), where Leon Trotsky was exiled in 1927, is full of bleak new Soviet-style construction. A more recent exile from Moscow, ex-Premier Georgi Malenkov, now runs a hydroelectric power station at Ust-Kamenogorsk. Uzbekistan (pop. 8,113,000), with new irrigation projects, gives Russia two-thirds of its cotton. Its capital...
...travel circuit includes Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev, Tbilisi (the Eastern-flavored capital of Soviet Georgia), and the seaside resorts of the Black Sea (Sochi, Sukhumi, Yalta). More adventurous tourists can go to Riga, capital of Latvia; Irkutsk, the burgeoning capital of eastern Siberia; or far east to Tashkent and Alma-Ata. Intourist will also permit tourists to hunt in the Crimean game preserves, once reserved for Soviet V.I.P.s...
...weapons might not be far to seek. Early harvests in the newly opened wheat fields of Kazakhstan were so poor that they threatened to make a fiasco of the "virgin lands" program that Khrushchev had rammed through almost singlehanded. From the far-off industrial zones around Irkutsk and Alma-Ata came reports that Khrushchev's decentralization of industry (TIME, April 15) had created such confusion that some factories had shut down completely for want of supplies. Stalin had committed far worse blunders and survived. But Khrushchev, as yet, was no Stalin. Where Stalin, because of his absolute command...
...York's Mayor Robert Wagner, San Juan's Mayoress de Gautier and about 30,000 Puerto Ricans turned out for a Solemn High Mass on the terrace of Keating Hall. And then the fiesta began. Mayor Wagner opened it by shattering a king-sized earthenware piñata (filled with gifts) with a green-covered baseball bat, and both mayor and cardinal were promptly bowled over in the crush of a crowd to pick up souvenir pieces...
Leaning low over the blue-white ice of Lake Misurina, the Soviet skater was a study in scowling concentration. Forgotten was the happy camaraderie of stadium ceremony. This was why he had spent bleak, cold years of practice back home at Alma-Ata, this was why he and his Olympic teammates had come to Cortina: to whip the world...