Word: mongolia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Lisa Larsen, 34, world-roving LIFE photographer, 1958's "Magazine Photographer of the Year" for her report on Outer Mongolia, favorite of statesmen of all types (Alben Barkley called her Mona Lisa; Nikita Khrushchev once gave her a bouquet of pink, white and red peonies); of cancer; in Manhattan...
...former member of [the antiparty] group [Molotov] became an ambassador. True, the country [Outer Mongolia] may not be large, but it is an ambassadorship. I do not want to mention names, but you have some former Secretaries of State. I do not know where they are today, but they are not ambassadors. A second member of the group [Kaganovich] is now head of the state asbestos trust. Is that punishment, to head up a big monopoly? ... It is better to confess to one's errors than to persist in them...
Mikoyan obviously was not talking off the cuff. At week's end Netherlands' officials confirmed that Moscow had asked and received permission to shift old Stonebottom, now 68, from the Russian embassy in forbidding Outer Mongolia to the post of ambassador in The Hague...
...Council, there will be a panel of three professors to pose questions and present their own views on China. One of the panel members, John K. Fairbank '29, professor of History and Associate Director of the Center for East Asian Studies, called Lattimore "one of the few specialists on Mongolia." In fact, he said, "he is probably the only American specialist of his generation...
...Inner Mongolia, reported New China News Agency, peasants "marked the occasion with revelry that included singing, dancing, and decorating their houses with lamps." In Kiangsi province they beat drums and gongs and shot off firecrackers. Cause of all this merriment: formation of two new "people's communes"-the most determined attempt yet to reduce human beings to the status of ants...