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Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov was born 94 years ago in a comfortable frame house in the small, sleepy city of Simbirsk, deep in the Russian heartland. His mother, a Lutheran, was a Volga German; his father Ilya, of Russian-Mongolian ancestry, was a teacher who rose to the post of director of elementary schools for his province and received a minor patent of nobility from the Czar. The Ulyanovs were seemingly untouched by the vast, ancient and epically inefficient tyranny that ruled Russia, or by the equally inefficient stirring against it. Vladimir and his older brother Alexander had an idyllic childhood...
Some states believe that the Negro is not the only threat to their racial purity, and therefore forbid whites to marry American Indians, West Indians, Asiatic Indians, Mongolians, Malays, Chinese, Japanese, Africans, "half-breeds," and mestizos. In South Carolina, racism tinged with male chauvanism holds that a white man can marry anyone (a Mongolian, for example) other than an Indian, a Negro, a mulatto, or a "half-breed," while a white woman can marry only a white man. Let it not be thought, however, that the South Carolina legislature is entirely bigoted, for it generously declares, "Marriages... between white persons...
Moscow-bound Train No. 7 had just pulled into Naushki, the Soviet railroad checkpoint on the Mongolian frontier. Suddenly, swarms of Red Chinese students dashed out of the coaches and into the station, tied themselves with belts to block the entrances. Then, in the words of astounded Stationmaster Prokop Mikhailov, they "emptied their bowels and bladders on the floor, in spittoons, and on benches. And the men's room was only a few steps away...
...advance and increasing specialization of knowledge. In 1923-24 the University offered tow courses in Chinese, one elementary and one advanced, and none in Japanese and Korean. Last year the Department of Far Eastern Languages offered four full courses and approximately twenty half courses in Japanese, Korean and Mongolian, including both intensive and non-intensive courses in languages and intermediate and advanced courses in the literatures, history and institutions of these countries now of such great importance in the world. There were also new courses in Oriental art offered by the Department of fine arts...
...twelve women and 14 children clad in tattered sheepskin coats and babushkas were a forlorn lot with a forlorn tale. They came from a sect of Protestant Pentecostal evangelists in the Siberian town of Chernogorsk, near the Mongolian border 2,100 miles to the east. Of late, local authorities there had taken away several children of the sect, and threatened to imprison the adult faithful. With the vague notion that a foreign embassy might help them, the Siberians went by train to Moscow. Now they wanted to travel to "Israel"-probably meaning the Israel of the Old Testament...