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...there have been vast changes as well. Under the Communists, the population of Siberia has more than doubled to nearly 19 million. The free, windswept steppes that once knew the horsetail banners and the hoofbeat thunder of Genghis Khan and his ferocious Golden Horde are now filled with the clank of harvesters in wheatfields stretching to the horizon. Communist Young Pioneers on vacation play volleyball on river banks where Kirghiz nomads used to light their campfires. In the frozen north, villages that were cut off from the world by the fall of the first snow now get airlifted supplies...
...Honeymoon Machine. It is really the Hollywood machine, in a rare moment of felicitous clank, turning out the slick, quick, funny film for which it was designed-in this case about three young people who use a computer to assault the casino in Venice...
...tour of his European outposts, USIA Director Edward R. Murrow, 53. sent back to Author Harry (Only in America) Golden a personal report on what it felt like to watch the Iron Curtain clank down in Berlin. "The hogs," wrote Murrow, "have put up fences to keep the people...
...Honeymoon Machine. It is really the Hollywood machine, in a rare moment of felicitous clank, turning out the slick, quick, funny film for which it was designed-in this case about three young people who use a computer to assault the casino in Venice...
...scream of sirens and the clank ot steel on cobblestones echoed down the mean, dark streets. Frightened East Berliners peeked from behind their curtains to see military convoys stretching for blocks. First came the motorcycle outriders, then jeeps, trucks and buses crammed with grim, steel-helmeted East German troops. Rattling in their wake were the tanks - squat Russian-built T-34s and T-54s. At each major intersection, a platoon peeled off and ground to a halt, guns at the ready. The rest headed on for the sector border, the 25-mile frontier that cuts through the heart of Berlin...