Word: moskva
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were some less than bright spots. Super Series '79, a media extravaganza in the guise of a three-game battle between the Soviet National Team and the best the NHL had to offer, ended in a humiliating 6-0 victory for the poised, tireless, quick-passing rink-rats from Moskva amd environs. Attendance declined notably in some NHL cities, and why Colorado still has a franchise when about 5000 fans show up per game--some by accident, no doubt--remains a mystery...
...limited that there are no traffic jams or parking problems. In any case, the streets are swept bone-dry by thousands of snowplows. Giant "snow eater" machines called snegouborki scoop up the snow and dump it onto conveyor belts, which deposit it in trucks, which unload it into the Moskva River. As the first flakes fall, at any hour of day or night one can hear the scritch-scratch of individual snow shovels and brooms, generally woman-powered...
Princess Anne is the first member of the British royal family to visit the U.S.S.R. since the revolution, but she insisted on being treated like an average tovarishch while in Kiev. At the Hotel Moskva on October Revolution Street she exchanges prepaid vouchers for her meals (breakfast: salami and cheese, two boiled eggs, black bread, fig jam, coffee-$1.50). Next week her father Prince Philip and her fiancé Mark Phillips will join her and watch her ride in the European equestrian championships. The normally obligatory visit to Lenin's tomb in Moscow has been dropped from Philip...
...Seine is a river of filth; yet Parisians willingly drink its waters. The Moskva traces an equally grimy course through Moscow, but Muscovites will soon be able to hold a glass under the kitchen faucet and savor Moskva water straight. The citizens of Singapore and Amsterdam, too, will shortly be able to drink from their polluted rivers. Between the stream and the lip, in all these cases, is a remarkable process developed in France that changes effluent into elixir...
...four submarines, 200 planes and 25,000 men. Under Vice Admiral V.N. Leonenkov, the Soviet force, an arm of the Black Sea fleet, consists of 40 to 60 ships, ten to 13 submarines and as many as 10,000 men-but no aircraft except those aboard the helicopter carriers Moskva or Leningrad. U.S. combat ships on the average are 19 years old; the Russian fleet averages only seven years. Of all Soviet warships serving in international waters, fully one-half are assigned to the Mediterranean. Says Kidd: "We walk a tightrope of adequacy...