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...Ants. The other Outer Mongolia is a newly awakened land bursting wide-eyed into the jet age. The capital city of Ulan Bator (Red Hero) boasts a finer hotel than any in Moscow. A state hospital, equipped by Czechoslovakia, is superbly run by a staff of 35 doctors (25 Mongols, five Russians, four Czechs, one Chinese). Sturdy Mongol girls tend up-to-date British machinery in a large textile mill, and the sons of nomad horsemen study physics at the state university. Russia and its European satellites have poured nearly $3 billion into Outer Mongolia. Hungarian technicians operate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Outer Mongolia: Everything New Here Is Russian | 12/14/1962 | See Source »

Nearly 700 years ago, when Kublai Khan's Mongol hordes swept out of the north, Viet Nam's legendary military hero, Tran Hung Dao, sparked the courage of his beleaguered army by having them tattoo on their arms the words "Sat Dat" (Let's kill the Mongols). Though outnumbered more than 2 to 1, the Vietnamese routed the Mongols and drove them out of Viet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: Situation: Better | 7/20/1962 | See Source »

...Mongol Hordes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 26, 1960 | 12/26/1960 | See Source »

...Mongol Horde...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 26, 1960 | 12/26/1960 | See Source »

...Mongol hordes! Please! My wife is now calling me Genghis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 26, 1960 | 12/26/1960 | See Source »

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