Word: caspian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...humid, red-roofed Resht, an Iranian city of 120,000 near the shores of the Caspian Sea, death last week had an appointment with Mahmud Faqizadeh, 31. A burly, handsome young man who worked in the Imperial Forestry Service, black-browed Mahmud had quarreled with an eminent Reshtian businessman, brooded over the affair in the company of a bottle of vodka and then, while drunk, sought out the man and shot him to death...
Ancient Battlegrounds. From the Caspian Sea to the border of China, Soviet Central Asia is a region as big as India, half as big as the U.S. Mountain ranges, deserts as bone-dry as the Sahara, and interminable wastes of grassy steppes make it one of the earth's most inhospitable areas. But from this Eurasian heartland came Aryans to populate the West, and across its pink sands marched generations of world conquerors. In 329 B.C. Alexander the Great sacked Samarkand ("Place of Sugars"), a city already centuries old. Rebuilt, Samarkand became one of the central depots...
...their products make their case. There are elaborate table models of heavy Russian industrial units: an integrated steel plant sprawls over a 450-sq.-ft. area: there are models of a plastics and synthetic-rubber complex and an offshore drilling platform that stands on hundreds of stilts in the Caspian Sea. In an area called "Atoms for Peace," the Russians show a 15-ft. model of the icebreaker Lenin...
...Union's The Forty-First, marking the Russian moviemakers' discovery that sex can be a more interesting theme than Stakhanovism. The film's heroine, a Bolshevik sniperette, fresh from mowing down 40 White Russians in the 1917 Revolution's aftermath, finds herself marooned on a Caspian isle with a handsome Czarist officer. Peeling off their wet clothing after their swim to shore, the ill-starred couple falls head-over-Hegel in love. Inevitably, however, when a boat heaves up to rescue the decadent nobleman, the trigger-happy lady sadly perceives her Marxist duty, hauls...
Prayers in the Mosques. The news reached Teheran just as the Shah, a stout friend of the U.S., was conferring at a Caspian resort with Ike's special ambassador to the Middle East, ex-Congressman James Richards. As the bodies of the two Americans were returned to Teheran with full military honors, Iran's government set the diplomatic wires humming with apologies and promises of an all-out mobilization to find the missing Anita Carroll. Iranian navy boats patrolled the Gulf of Oman to head off bandit attempts to escape into Pakistan. On the other side...