Word: rans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...during much of his brutal, 30-year reign, Svetlana could well shed much light on shrouded facets of Soviet political history. She was just a young girl when Stalin launched his bitter purge of the 1930s. Even after Stalin's death she was close to the men who ran the Kremlin-until the mid-1950s, when Khrushchev suddenly launched his destalinization program. It was possibly the Soviet's destalinization, in fact, that prompted Svetlana to defect. No one, of course, could be sure. Like almost everything connected with the Stalin name, her defection remained a great mystery...
...Czarist Russia then kept time by the Julian calendar, which ran 13 days behind the Gregorian calendar used elsewhere in the West. The Communists soon got in step, and thus now celebrate their own October Revolution in November...
...days, the three huddled in a trench at 18,200 ft. Their supplies ran out, and only the lucky discovery of a food cache left by summertime climbers saved them. Unaware of the cache, their four companions 900 ft. below gave them up for lost; Blomberg and John Edwards battled their way back to 10,000 ft. and stamped out a message in the snow: WEX6-DON-HELP. An observation plane relayed it to Anchorage. Instantly a massive rescue operation was under...
...Michael Lipton) chosen to defend Hamp is aloof, yet earnest, and thoroughly determined to help him. But Hamp (Robert Salvio) is hard to help precisely because he is a simple soul of truth, a pebble of innocence without a tongue-wag of self-protective deviousness in his nature. He ran away, he tells his lawyer and the court, because one day the mud-and-blood bath of battle got to be too much for him. He doesn't have the foggiest idea if he ever intended coming back to his outfit. All he knows is that he desperately wanted...
...semi-annual report on U.S. foreign-currency operations, Coombs explained that the largest factor in sterling's recovery has been "the underlying improvement" in Britain's pound-threatening balance-of-payments deficit. Though the British ran a deficit for the whole of 1966 (probably between $420 million and $560 million), rising exports produced a balance-of-payments surplus during the final three months of the year. This year, says a forecast from London's National Institute for Economic and Social Research, Britain should show an impressive $490 million surplus, its first since...