Word: bret
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gold mining in Siberia, a big business under the Czars, ground to a halt after the Revolution. It did not get started again until 1927, when Stalin, after reading Bret Harte's novels about the California gold rush, set up a gold trust in hopes that renewed mining in Siberia would spur a mass migration to that sparsely settled area. His scheme produced no substantial population shift, but the Russians so rebuilt and expanded their mining industry that by 1938 their annual gold output was worth $183 million...
...should have been easy. The only hazards at suburban Saint-Nom-la-Bretèche were the exuberant French fans, the ubiquitous French photographers and a persistent French fog, which got so thick that play was cut to 63 holes and cars had to be parked around the greens with their headlights shining. On the very first hole, a 456-yd. par five, Nicklaus reached the green with a drive and a No. 8 iron, and sank his putt for an eagle. But after three days, the best that Jack and Arnie could manage was a first-place tie with...
...Bret on Brecht is an exciting peek at the poems, letters, scenes and songs in the treasure-trove of a 20th century master of theater. A splendid company of six perched on stools gives magic to this revue-styled evening...
...works, and a man with ideas about opera. This week Composer Kastle and his ideas re ceived a nationwide airing: in a two-hour telecast the NBC-TV Opera gave Deseret, the first work to be given its premiere on the show since Stanley Hollingsworth's La Grande Bretêche four years...
...weeks ahead, with a cast ranging from Richard (Have Gun) Boone reading from Bret Harte to Eleanor Roosevelt reading from Kipling's Just So Stories, the Reading Out Loud show might well achieve the unique distinction of becoming a program that measures its success by the number of viewers it turns away from video and back to books...